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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]BRAC is the closest thing to DOGE that FCPS has ever undertaken. The “one off” boundary changes are expensive and incredibly inefficient, costing up to several hundred thousand dollars each, which is large part of the reason why they aren’t common. One BRAC analysis for 2x to 4x cost that covers every school in FCPS? That is incredibly, incredibly efficient by comparison.[/quote]

No.  It is not anywhere comparable to DOGE except for major disruption.

The purpose of DOGE is to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.  Whether it does that is certainly up for discussion.

However, this BRAC is:
BRAC committee is anything but transparent--NDA's for committee members; questionable selection processes for the committee.

[b]Waste[/b]: Spending $$$ to a contractor --why?  So, FCPS can pass the buck on decision making and pretend that an unprejudiced third part is making the decisions.  (Meanwhile, the committee selected is anything but unprejudiced.)
While there certainly are boundaries that need to be adjusted, it would appear they are not the ones much discussed on this thread.
A PP said this would be money savings.  Does he/she really believe that this is only 2 to 4 times the cost of an individual school boundary study?
Why spend money on a study that is not needed?  It seems to me that with all the construction going on around Coates that this could have been easily adjusted two years ago.

$$ for double busing.
Do you think it is not going to cost money to switch staffs?  Haven't heard a word about how these changes are going to affect that.

[b]Fraud:[/b]  Maybe, maybe not.  Why was there a non-compete award?  Is the contract limited to $500K?  Highly unlikely
Have there been change orders?

[b]Abuse[/b]: Putting the entire school community into uncertainty.  It may not be a right to be sent to a certain school, but when a switch is made, it disturbs neighborhoods and communities.    Anyone who says differently has not been through a boundary change.

Not addressing the AP/IB issue when discussing this.  That is a major concern of many parents of high school students.

[b]One of the SB members said that they would not eliminate AAP centers because of the AAP so activism. Fine, but why does one group have  so much influence,[/b] when the community as a whole has made it clear they do not want this fiasco of a study?  Overwhelmingly, people want to stay at their current schools.

From the CIP, there do not appear to be any high schools that are too small. There are a couple that are full, but it appears that is a temporary situation.

Fairfax County residents are undergoing a major employment upheaval right now.  Adding this to it is abusive. 
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DP.  The fact that AAP has a loud advocacy group is sickening.  Where's the advocacy group for the Gen Ed kids?  Talk about INEQUITY...[/quote]

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