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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]my kid is bussed to a center. Eliminate AAP and he/she gets bussed to the local school. So what's the difference?  
 
 
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Your kid is AAP, and you can't figure out that it means additional buses?  Buses are already in your neighborhood for neighborhood school and there is probably already room on the  bus for your kid.[/quote]

probably probably - sound like a huge cost savings :roll:.  The only way to answer this is to know how many additional busses are needed because of the existence of Centers? Those centers have neighborhood kids who get bussed there as well.   really, there are 184,000 students and they all have to get bussed somewhere. I seriously doubt AAP adds more than a neglibible cost.[/quote]

Our neighborhood had 3 elementary school bus routes at one time-base school, old center, new center.  Garza's list doesn't seem to address the issue nor that of AAP middle school.  Flex is like music or strings-it's extra staff for a subject.  Immersion gets extra staff for instruction plus principals use staff from the regular ed allocation.    I'd remove immersion extra staffing before I'd take away flex which is a equitable program.

IB  is a huge expense.  Each school has extra staff and pays overhead to IB.

From a program budget:
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/FY13/FY2013ProgramBudget.pdf
AP at 17 high schools =$3.43m including 2.7m of test fees and non-school based positions.  Cost if you add in the non-school based is $210 per pupil.

IB middle years was at 5 middle schools and 4 high schools and was about 870,000. 
IB at 8 high schools = $2.61m including 1.2m test fees, .1 accreditation, .2 prof dev/instructional supplies. No non-school based positions is odd.  $900 per student.

AP/IB are listed under Advanced Academic Programs  [Dr Carol Horn - this includes AAP].

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