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Parents and advocates press MCPS on Safe Routes, facilities maintenance and opening Crown High School
Summary
WABA and parents urged faster Safe Routes to School planning, cluster coordinators described HVAC and maintenance failures and called for preventative funding, and multiple community speakers asked the board to open Crown High School as a permanent school and preserve local feeder patterns.
Several groups used the FY27 budget hearing to press the district on transportation safety, facility readiness and local boundary decisions.
Peter Gray of the Washington Area Bicyclists Association said MCPS added one coordinator position in the FY27 budget for Safe Routes work but noted only 89 of the district's 211 schools have safe-routes plans; at the Vision Zero pace of five plans per year, completion would take more than two…
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