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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Austin is for fiscal accountability and community voice in decision making.  He wants excellent education for all.  This is possible still being fiscally responsible by more closely finding how money is spent and data informed outcomes. He will listen to the voices of communities of parents, teachers, and students. [/quote]
Please explain how he will create " excellent education for all" in terms of overcrowded schools?

He doesn't want to look at adjacent clusters when redrawing boundaries, which means we have to build more. So, how does he think MCPS will afford to address over crowded schools with the limited budget?  And of course now they have to also spend time and money on dealing with the lawsuit that *he* in involved in.

Please explain Austin's plan for how he will address over crowding in our schools?  And also, please explain why he doesn't want neighborhood schools, but rather the status quo?  Let's recall that some 30 to 40% of students do not attend their closest school.[/quote]

Austin posted this on Twitter today:

"Not many students are actually eligible to be moved for capacity if we stick to adjacencies. I’ve been saying this all along, but here’s the data summary on my numbers:"

https://twitter.com/Stephen_Austin_/status/1262020682516508672

Based on his computations, derived from the WXY report, moving students to adjacent schools won't solve the overcrowding issue.[/quote]

Isn't that sweet? Steve Austin is using data from the WXY report [b]he opposed[/b]. I guess it's turned out to be useful after all! How about that?

It's a weak argument, anyway. Just because boundary changes wouldn't ameliorate all overcrowding problems, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it where it would.[/quote]

+1. And he's selectively picking parts of the report which are most aligned to his position. His tweet is based on one chart about the single-nearest school to each school, which is a much narrower scope than looking at several adjacent/nearby schools, which the report also does.  If he had read a few pages further, he would see that it says "Comparing the difference of only two schools may give us an incomplete picture of the utilization conditions around a school. It is informative to look at disparities among groups of closest schools." And "It is important to consider a wider number of schools than just the nearest school for several reasons, including factors such as island assignments that complicate the idea of the “nearest” school."

I encourage everyone interested in this topic to read the report for themselves. Page 123 is the beginning of the relevant section:

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/interim-report/MCPS_InterimReport_Full.pdf[/url][/quote]

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