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[quote=Anonymous]There was nothing in the draft policy that indicated that the consideration of SES should take priority over the other four considerations and, more importantly, those considerations would only come into play after there had been a threshold determination that there was a need for a boundary adjustment based on specified criteria, including having an overcrowded or under-enrolled school, or opening a new school.

Clearly they could have moved sooner to balance the enrollments at Langley and McLean, and for sure some of the delay related to the consideration of revisions to P8130.7, but also keep in mind:

- Langley’s renovations weren’t finished until August 2018;
- McLean’s enrollment, while growing, didn’t really spike until the fall of 2018;
- Strauss, knowing boundary changes are always controversial, probably thought at first she could pass the matter off to her successor; 
- Other School Board members wanted other boundary changes in the pipeline to get attention first; 
- Brabrand has halted smaller “administrative” changes because he saw abuses and a lack of transparency; and
- Strauss didn’t do enough leg work in January 2019 to explain the basis for her proposal the first time she tried to get a Langley/McLean boundary study included among the priority boundary adjustments in the current CIP.

Lots of areas where there is room for improvement, but most of it has relatively little to do with One Fairfax. 
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