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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]When the Lewis Leadership academy was showcased to the Board last year, Dixit commented that she thought it was a great program and would love to see such an academy established in her area with a focus on STEM. So that should give you a clue.[/quote]

An academy and a magnet are two very different things.  They could easily put an academy in one of those additional buildings.  There are two pretty good sized buildings.
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Standard FCPS academies get transportation, and students are not counted in membership.  Edison Global Stem is 3 years full time, counted in membership, no pyramid limitations, no transportation.  The 2 elementary magnets get transportation.  Hunters Woods was about 52% base school, loaded with AAP Waples Mill 69 [total 98], magnet total transfers 251. The 2 Bailey's got less than 20 transfers combined so not really functioning as a magnet.

Dunne/Reid new Bucknell Montessori magnet is limited to the West Potomac pyramid so FCPS has set a precedent on magnets with pyramid limited enrollment/application. If even in these nearby pyramids, you are not eligible to apply: Mount Vernon, Edison, Hayfield, Lewis...

https://bucknelles.fcps.edu/announcements/montesorri-program-bucknell-elementary[/quote]

The left hand knows not what the right hand is doing in FCPS.  We have this boundary study that supposedly was going to come up with more compact attendance areas and reduce transportation costs, and yet they keep coming up with more specialized programs that introduce greater complexity into the system.

And they could not have picked a worse superintendent than Reid to preside over this sprawling leviathan of a school system. She’s all about the bells and whistles and appears to have no talent whatsoever for attending to the basics.

Insofar as KAA is concerned they should be deciding what type of school it is going to be within a matter of weeks and then task their new head of facilities to come back in no more than a month with a detailed plan about how to make that happen within a realistic time frame. [/quote]

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