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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were some strong hints there that County Council may be reluctant to fund budget increases for this if they don't think it's being done well (and they clearly, and I think correctly, don't think it's being done well so far.)   Do we think MCPS leadership will care about that at all?  [/quote]

They probably think it's empty threats and are probably mostly right about that[/quote]

Even if this is approved and funded, there's no way it will be in place in 2 years. What will happen is that they won't be able to hire the teachers for the 4 additional STEM magnets (and perhaps other programs, but I think most agree that's the hardest one to staff), and so they'll have to continue to have Blair and Poolesville open to applications from the same regions they have now. And then someone will say, "hmm, should we maybe have tried to build this incrementally one program at a time?"[/quote]

Doubtful they'd let people keep going to countywide programs, for a number of reasons including that they will do applications in fall 2026 but keep telling themselves they have until fall 2027 to get staffed at which point everyone will already be assigned to programs.  Instead they'll presumably just staff the programs with whoever they can get, and potentially have mandatory courses taught by under-qualified teachers with electives just not being offered if they can't find teachers for them.  Real equitable of them, huh?[/quote]

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