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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listening to the 8/26 work session.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u11acsrpEFo
2:09 Reid convening a think tank.

2:10 Dunne - not just benefitting the western part of the county which has received a disproportionate share from FCPS and the county.   Building new schools due to growth and new construction is not a disproportionate share,

One might call IB $ spent a disproportionate share.
Dunne on no magnet school in the eastern part of the county- oops Bucknell with geographic limits. Edison Global STEM is east.  300 students.  Full time- give them a bus and call it a magnet. Never forget the eastern part of FX is what benefitted when the KAA site was let go...
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So make KAA a global STEM for the west side of the county. [/quote]

Western Fairfax has a STEM  We do not NEED a "global STEM."  We need a regular high school.  Look at the numbers.  If they don't take advantage of this site now, they are going to have a more difficult problem very soon.[/quote]

DP.  Did a bit of digging about Edison's "global STEM" program.

It's a three-year program 90 students per grade, so 270 in total.  Students zoned to Edison have first priority and the only pre-requisite is having completed Algebra I.  If Edison kids don't take all the slots, students from any other pyramid are accepted in the order in which applications are received.  Those students are treated as "student transfers" under FCPS Regulation 2230 (under the "High School Curricular" category).  The curriculum doesn't seem super specialized, but rather existing honors and IB courses with a "practical applications" overlay.

In 2024-25, Edison had a total of 179 transfers into the school.  Of the 179 transfers, only 60 are identified as pursuant to the student transfer regulation.  The "global STEM" program is just one basis upon which someone could seek to transfer into Edison, but if every student transferring into Edison was transferring for the global STEM program, it would still mean that only about 20 of the 90 annual slots were going to out-of-boundary kids every year.

If there was a "global STEM" program at KAA with similar features, it's possible that every slot could be filled by KAA students.  In that case, it would just be a program lodged within a neighborhood high school.  If slots were available to students at other schools, it's unlikely the number would be huge.

I don't know when this program got started at Edison.  For most of the past decade, Edison has been under capacity, so something like a "global STEM" program may have been intended to attract kids to the school.  For the last four years, Edison has been over capacity (101% to 107%), so query whether such a program would have been launched at a school that was already near or over capacity.

All things considered, it seems relatively low-profile compared to some of the stuff Reid was talking about at the work session.  [/quote]

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