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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole program development process has been botched from the start, as the council members pointed out in so many words. Staff development and curriculum analysis, and a transportation analysis should have been conducted initially - these are the major components and they have yet to take place.[/quote]

Correct. I don't know how they thought they could set a deadline and timeline without those key assets in place.[/quote]

DP - they seem wedded to doing this at the same time as the boundary study, because of some flawed “foundations” metaphor that Essie McGuire keeps repeating.

They need to implement the boundary changes, wait a year or two to see how those shake out, and THEN begin the process of planning for regional programs.  Not concurrently.  To carry the foundations metaphor, they’re mixing novel ingredients they aren’t sure will combine to create a strong foundation.  They need to take the time to determine what will make the strongest foundation.[/quote]

Yeah. I get the argument that making the boundary changes is hard if the current state of magnets/regional programs is different than the future state, so the numbers will change as far as sending/receiving. But that doesn't make it possible for to do what they're trying to do in a 1-2 year time period just because they want it.[/quote]

2 years is plety of time to roll out for one grade in 6 schools. Not sure the issue. Can you elaborate?[/quote]

2 years are not enough to staffing 27 brand new programs even for just the 9th grade. And how to persuade students to become the lab rats given only one grade of teachers? And in another year, they got to double the number of teachers. [/quote]

I would not look at this as 27 programs.

I will look at 6 schools and one grade only. How many teachers are already in the school who can teach those subjects. [b]How many needs to be brought from outside. 
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Only the bold part is issue and MCPS needs to provide data for that.
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It’s not six schools. It’s all the schools. There will be 14 application programs in EACH REGION. Schools will have three or more programs. [/quote]

Thanks for catching that. It won't be 6 schools. My mistake.

Core question is still the same, what course will need new hiring and what can be taught by existing resourses. MCPS needs to share that.[/quote]

And how many schools will lose teachers that move to these new programs, and how will MCPS replace them. [/quote]

Many kids will also move to these programs. So all teachers don't need to be replaced. That's why MCPS needs to share exact numbers for all these programs and what extra resourse they need. [/quote]

High school teachers teach 5 classes per day, of about 25-30 students apiece. So let’s say a biology teacher at School A is teaching 125 students per year.

Now say that biology teacher goes to the biomedical magnet at School B.

About 25-50 student per year will get into each regional program. Total. So School A might lost 5-10 students to the biomed magnet at School B, along with that one teacher.

Who will teach the remaining 100 or so kids who still need to take biology (a graduation requirement) at School A?

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