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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoa. Jeannie Franklin admitted that schools with existing programs won't get any new staff or resources.

Instead, the bulk of new resources will go to schools getting magnets for the first time, which means Wooton, Churchill, WJ, and BCC. [/quote]

BCC is not getting a magnet for the first time.  Or rather, the IB program that already exists is just going to become the "magnet". [/quote]

It will need more teachers[/quote]

I thought none of the programs are getting new teachers, just perhaps some extra training.[/quote]

If they don't change BCC boundaries but put in a new criteria based program that adds 200 students from other schools, their staff allocation will increase and other schools' staff allocations decrease.[/quote]

it's really not a new program since it already exists.  I don't know how many kids are in it, but I imagine that they'd just restrict the number of kids from BCC to have kids from other schools.  It seems like the idea overall (with the no new teachers thing) is to just utilize resources that already exist at the locations.[/quote]

It’s sort of a new program and sort of not. RMIB has higher level cohorted pre-IB courses in 9th/10th. BCC does not. RMIB magnet kids do the full diploma. BCC kids can choose to do the full diploma without any kind of application or criteria, or kids can just take IB courses of interest without doing the full diploma. No one has indicated what the plan will be with BCC under this new system. Particularly when BCC doesn’t really do much IB with 9th and 10th currently, kids will be joining a program that has minimal infrastructure until 11th/12th. [/quote]

DP. It is definitely a new program. It will have 9th and 10th grade classes like RMIB has. It will have out of bounds spot. It will be much better than what is offered now. [/quote]

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