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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it more advantageous for fcps and easier to build a stronger esol program if they concentrate those students in a few schools rather than spreading those resources between all the schools?

Do they get more federal money if those numbers are higher at a few places  than if the numbers were, say, 25-30% at a bunch of schools?[/quote]

I don't know how all the Title I funding is allocated.  Reportedly FCPS will have "ESOL academies" at Stuart, Lee, and perhaps Herndon next year as a pilot program to work with students who arrive at HS with minimal English skills (and in many cases limited literacy in any language).[/quote]

I guess I'll be pupil placing out of Stuart when my kids hit high school.  I'm guessing they'll probably end up busing ESOL kids from other schools to those academies.  How much worse can it get?  The county needs to do a better job of deciding where affordable housing is built so there isn't such a huge concentration of FARMs and ESOL kids in some schools and very little in others.
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I went to a meeting at Glasgow MS this spring where Karen Garza and others discussed this, and there was no suggestion that students from other districts would be bussed to Stuart.  The intent seemed to be two-fold:  first, identify the best way to educate these high-needs kids and, second, give other families comfort that the rest of the school would go about its regular business.

Also, the affordable housing that you mention is mostly market-rate affordable housing in that area.  It's not like the county decided to build a ton of housing projects at Bailey's Crossroads, so much as that over time, as newer housing with modern amenities was built elsewhere, garden apartments there became relatively affordable for lower-income immigrants. [/quote]

The Board of Supervisors KEEPS approving multi-family housing projects in these pyramids, all under the guise of revitalization, which is absolute horsesh!t.

They are tearing down the Annandale AMF bowling to build multi-family housing, and a project on Columbia Pike got approved recently that is in the [b]Glen Forest/Poe/Stuart pyramid[/b]. So no, it is not just old garden apartments that are the problem.

I think these new multi-family housing developments will just fill up with illegals and breed crime and further concentrate a high-needs populace in the area. 
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Actually, Glasgow middle, probably. [/quote]

Glen Forest goes to Glasgow and Stuart.  80% of Poe goes to Annandale and the rest goes to Falls Church.[/quote]

I know, which is why I corrected myself in the next post. I should know better, I've been to a number of meetings at Glasgow. I quite like Glasgow's campus, actually. [/quote]

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