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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The existing CC building has to be renovated after the new HS is built. That will cost tens of millions of dollars. $40? $50?[/b] APS is not talking about that yet.

MPSA is going to be torn down. You could leave it on the site during construction, then renno, then move it to the old building. But that takes at least 5 years, and it also means the construction for the new building will be much harder and stupider, because they will spend $1 million building MPSA a new play area they plan to destroy, and they will build a half field instead of a full field, and the bus loop won't be optimized, etc.

They absolutely should move MPSA north now. It doesn't matter where, we have the seats, use them. Make the construction make more sense now.

Then in 5 years when you are renovating the old building, we will know what we need it for. It may be another neighborhood school in S Arlington, where they are building new multi-story family buildings at a crazy pace. Or if north Arlington has some magical growth they could move MPSA back at that point.

That's what makes the most sense.

I don't know what MPSA actually wants. [/quote]

APS had proposals that said the expansion of the Career Center would be around $170-200 million for what they want. [/quote]

In all the proposals MPSA is left on site while a new HS is built. MPSA just wants out now and they don’t want to wait for however long for a new building. They shouldn’t ever have been moved out of Drew to begin with.[/quote]

Supposedly the Drew community wanted their own school, not to share it with Montessori[/quote]

It was absolutely right to separate Montessori and the neighborhood program.  The neighborhood program wasn't getting its due resources and all of those students were very poorly served.  There are different bell schedules for classes and the two approaches are fundamentally different.  Whether Montessori program should have been moved or the whole school converted to Montessori is a point that can be debated; but separating the two was the right thing to do.  And yes, Nauck (Green Valley) wanted its own neighborhood school going back to the days of busing them to Page (now Jamestown?).
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