Per the meeting, Maury isn't going to be taking any kindergarden NCLB transfers except sibiling of existing Maury students this year. There is only anticipated room for kindergarden students in the district.
As for redrawing the districts, this was suggested at the meeting. The problem is that even assuming that all modular units would stay, over time, there would not be enough room for all students.

The big impact will be on the Del Ray families that are zoned to Jefferson-Houston, but have (in recent years) opted in to Maury instead. It's sad because those families should (geographically) be zoned to Maury to begin with.

Families will always prefer a neighborhood elementary school that you can walk to, and ACPS should recognize this. What parent in Del Ray is going to want their kid to walk to school every day marching by all the middle schoolers at GW, right by the scary Seven-Eleven where the whinos hang out, cross under the tracks at the Braddock Rd Metro station, then march up West Street to Jefferson-Houston??????

It's never gonna happen. I don't care how nice you make the new campus.

Here's more info on ACPS kindergarten policies:
http://oldtownalexandria.patch.com/articles/school-board-moves-to-allow-flexibility-in-increasing-kindergarten-class-size

this is confusing - does this mean if you opt out of a school for NCLB reasons or because you don't want a modified calendar and you select another school, say Barrett - that you :

wait until June 15 to see if Barrett is deemed over capacity;
if it is, you are placed in a lottery;
if you lose the lottery, then you may also not even get your "home" school - but instead be stuck with a school that ACPS chooses for you?

Yes but the hope is probably that at least some parents that were zoned for Maury would choose it because it is so close by. They are planning to remodel which will make it all new and shiny. The academics will still suck but hey at least the building will be new! The City really embraces that idea - see TC Williams for another example.

The way I understand it is that parents will not be given the opportunity to choose. Their children will simply be placed in a contiguous school of the district's choosing.

No, the rumor about JH doesn't relate directly to the possibility that Virginia will obtain a waiver. It's more that if the school is changed from PK-5 to PK-8, is it essentially a new school and therefore is given an official clean slate re NCLB and AYP? If so, could this status then be used as the basis to deny parents an opt-out for the school, which they have previously been able obtain due to school performance?

If Virginia is granted the waiver it applied for from Department of Education, it will no longer be under NCLB. If it goes through it takes effect for this coming school year, meaning this fall. If that happens, I guess it is possible that no one will be able to apply for an administrative transfer. (Maybe if you've already got a kid who transferred they would be allowed to stay, and maybe siblings would also get to go to the transfer school?) This would apply across the whole system, not just Jefferson-Houston.
In a lot of ways it's a separate issue from the Modified Open Enrollment Policy.
While I agree they're trying just about everything they can think of to get people to stay with Jefferson-Houston, the reality is that the enrollment numbers have been going up all around the city, and they literally are running out of room at some of the smaller schools.
What frustrates me is that this has been going on for two years at some of the elementary schools, now it's spread across the city, and its only going to get worse. The only way they can really solve this is:
1. Figure out the number of students that will fit in the new Jefferson-Houston
2. Figure out how many students will fit into the new Patrick Henry
3. Figure how many modular units they are going to keep or convert to permanent at the other schools
4. Then redraw the boundary lines to accommodate this new reality!
Whether you buy a million dollar home or rent an apartment, parents who care should be able to do research and make an informed decision when they choose where to live. Families should be able to know where they are going to go to school!

Interesting. I'm guessing families in North Old Town will love this.

There is a rumor -- I don't know how well founded -- that because JH is being restructured as a PK-8 school instead of PK-5, it will now be considered a "new school" and not be subject to NCLB.