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[quote=Anonymous]The OOB overcrowding issue lies firmly at the feet of DCPS. Someplace, a few months back the chancellor mentioned that an ideal elementary budget starts with around 300 enrollment. For a school with fewer IB students, such as Eaton, the principal is pretty much forced to bring in OOB kids to ensure proper staffing...two  4th grade classes of 24 kids each vs a single class of 34, for instance
DCPS can and should be able to fix the allocation of funds to eliminate this issue; what are all their fiscal employees doing? Just signing checks?
Also, though I won't put this at the door of the current chancellor, modernization projects are being started which bear no correlation to the projected student numbers. It almost seems that no-one in DCPS looked at census data or construction permits, or spoke with an actuary. There should be no reason that schools which have been redone in the past 4 years need expansion...this is not Loudon county with tracts of open space being rapidly paved over.[/quote]

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