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Hundreds of public commenters press MCPS to keep countywide magnets and demand data transparency in boundary and program reviews
Summary
At a full public-comment session on June 24, parents, students and town officials urged MCPS to preserve countywide IB and magnet pathways, questioned data quality and NDAs used in advisory groups, and asked the board for clearer transportation, enrollment and implementation data for proposed regional program changes.
A packed public-comment period at the Montgomery County Board of Education's June 24 meeting focused on proposed boundary changes and a sweeping secondary program analysis that would shift some countywide magnets to a regional model.
Students and parents told trustees that countywide magnets such as Richard Montgomery's IB program create cohort communities and academic pathways that would be harmed by a patchwork regional approach. "Blair brings together a critical mass of like-minded, motivated students...Fragmenting the student population across multiple regional sites makes these courses less feasible to offer," said Daniel Lee, a rising junior at Montgomery Blair High…
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