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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS presented updated CIP plans for the Career Center tonight:
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-05-24-WS-2-Inst-messages-FINAL.pdf

Tonight's work session is available for viewing here:
https://www.apsva.us/school-board-meetings/school-board-work-sessions-meetings/

The plan is a 1,700 seat building for the new Career Center: 
- 450 middle school Arl Tech seats
- 950 high school Arl Tech seats (I think - this number isn't spelled out, but based on the total of 1,700)
- 300 part-time CTE seats (to accommodate 900 students from other high schools coming to CC for classes in three blocks)

Montessori gets a new building and grows to 775 seats (it's 460 now).  All satellite preschool Montessori classes from around the County will move to the campus, as well as the middle school seats (which are now about 70 Gunston students).

Total students at the Career Center campus at any time will be 2,475.

Costs aren't broken down but total costs are estimated at $185 million.

My first reaction is that it's so many option seats.  I hope families will apply for all these seats.

Does Arl Tech allow students to take the full range of AP classes, languages, etc?
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LOL, the County needs 10 years to get Carlin Springs Road ready for Kenmore to be turned into a high school.  And it sounds like APS and the County have taken zero steps toward this since this issue was discussed and debated in 2017 (52.30 minute mark).[/quote]

I think it's a clever bit of politics. The neighborhood leaned on the fact that the existing transportation infrastructure couldn't support a high school there back in 2017, when really what they wanted was just to veto the whole project so they could stay zoned to W-L. Now APS is trying to get the county to just offer them transportation improvements, no strings attached. What neighborhood would refuse that? Then, when the project is complete, the neighborhood won't have that argument to fall back on to stop the high school from being built. [/quote]

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