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As far as TJHSST, isn’t it a governor’s school thad receives partial funding directly from the Commonwealth? Guessing the school’s charter doesn’t prohibit participation from nearby districts, especially ones that do not have access to a governor’s school. Not that it matters. Not sure the Alexandria SB will really deviate from its past position on this.

This is actually a great point! It’s funded in part by the state as the STEM Governor’s School for NoVa. It also receives substantial support from a non-profit foundation. Such a shame for ACPS to automatically opt all its students out of this opportunity.

“As the Governor's School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia, the school is also supported by the Virginia Department of Education. Unlike other magnet schools, TJHSST has a four-year, full day program.

In 1999, local business leaders, parents, and alumni formed the TJ Partnership Fund (TJPF) as a nonprofit public foundation to help raise money to support TJHSST’s academic mission and role as a STEM education leader. After the renovation the TJPF expanded its focus to enhance STEM outreach efforts and alumni engagement in addition to its support for the school.”

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/about

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Anonymous wrote:TAG (or whatever it's called now) is completely relevent to middle and high school.

Alexandrians may "care" about different populations but they never bother to try to change anything for those populations, do they?

Because they benefit from a system that fails those populations.

What do you suggest we do for the underperforming populations? Money is not the fix, look at Baltimore and Chicago versus Miami-Dade Public schools. Miami-Dade has a per pupil spend of $12k. But want to know what they do have - school choice, charter schools, and impressive magnet schools. Talking about helping the underserved in Alexandria without any suggestions to truly and innovatively change the system is just wasted chatter. After all, what is the definition of insanity?

Those aren't fixes. They increase interschool disparities and mask the underlying problems.

To fix this system, everything should be on the table. Also you're wrong.

Wow, what a persuasive argument you made!

Interschool disparities are not a bad thing. It’s people like you who assume they are that makes ACPS unsalvageable.

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Anonymous wrote:TAG (or whatever it's called now) is completely relevent to middle and high school.

Alexandrians may "care" about different populations but they never bother to try to change anything for those populations, do they?

Because they benefit from a system that fails those populations.

What do you suggest we do for the underperforming populations? Money is not the fix, look at Baltimore and Chicago versus Miami-Dade Public schools. Miami-Dade has a per pupil spend of $12k. But want to know what they do have - school choice, charter schools, and impressive magnet schools. Talking about helping the underserved in Alexandria without any suggestions to truly and innovatively change the system is just wasted chatter. After all, what is the definition of insanity?

Those aren't fixes. They increase interschool disparities and mask the underlying problems.

To fix this system, everything should be on the table. Also you're wrong.

Wow, what a persuasive argument you made!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TAG (or whatever it's called now) is completely relevent to middle and high school.

Alexandrians may "care" about different populations but they never bother to try to change anything for those populations, do they?

Because they benefit from a system that fails those populations.

What do you suggest we do for the underperforming populations? Money is not the fix, look at Baltimore and Chicago versus Miami-Dade Public schools. Miami-Dade has a per pupil spend of $12k. But want to know what they do have - school choice, charter schools, and impressive magnet schools. Talking about helping the underserved in Alexandria without any suggestions to truly and innovatively change the system is just wasted chatter. After all, what is the definition of insanity?

Those aren't fixes. They increase interschool disparities and mask the underlying problems.

To fix this system, everything should be on the table. Also you're wrong.