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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Criteria programs will have specific metrics and their students who meet them will be placed in a lottery for access". 
Admitting that even with many regions and many regional programs they won't have enough seats to meet all the kids who qualify. [/quote]

Wow, you go MCPS! You have managed to state the obvious truth instead of stating an obvious lie![/quote]

Yup. I missed anything about reserved seats for home schools but I'm sure that's part of it too [/quote]

Oh, I'm not attending but that's one of my biggest bugaboos and I would love if someone asked about the extra seats for the host school.

Also would love if someone asked why the lowest-FARMS school in each of the 6 districts was chosen to host the humanities magnet. [/quote]

I asked about this and the way it was answered, my understanding is that they will set aside local seats for criteria-based schools. [/quote]

Thanks for asking and posting the response!

I guess as to fairness, it'll all be in the actual numbers ... does the host school get 1/3 of the seats, or 1/5? Is it a min or max, or both?
Not sure why they can't just put all the kids in the region in the same pool and however it shakes out, it shakes out.[/quote]

Yes, I am going to email the presenters and my BOE member to ask about projected seat numbers per program and how many will be allocated to the host school. I agree that it would make way more sense to have all the students who qualify for a criteria-based program in one pool rather than give potential preference to those attending a host school. I'm not sure how that is equitable.

They did answer one question about having only 15 seats allocated for a theatre program and said that this is just a "proposed minimum" that may change over time.

Maybe these numbers do exist somewhere and I just haven't seen them? [/quote]

In the 10/16 BoE presentation they had a slide that said the total seats for the first year in region 4 would be:
105 Richard Montgomery 
135 Wooton
135 Rockville
135 Churchill

Jeannie Franklin said that RM would break down to 60 for IB, 30 for dance, and 15 for theatre. (Which seems backward since more kids would probably want theatre than dance.)

There was also a slide showing 3 buses per school for program students. They’d go to their home school to get a shuttle to the program schools.

Today said they might increase program numbers in subsequent years but I bet they have a hard cap on buses and no programs will grow larger than whatever that number is. [/quote]

Total OUTSIDE seats, that is. They didn’t say how many seats there would be for kids at at the home school. [/quote]

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