Parents to Weigh In on Advanced Academic Shifts
Fairfax County Public School community meetings come after school board members, parents say plan seemed a "done deal."
As Fairfax County Public Schools looks to add more Advanced Academic Program Centers and address overcrowding at some that already exist, it is reaching out to parents and community members impacted by a potential shift — an outreach put in place after parents and some school board members claimed the system was moving forward without a proper engagement process and the restructuring was a "done deal." The primary focus of the meetings — scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday in the Kilmer Middle School cafeteria for children in Clusters 1, 2, and 3 (which includes Vienna, Falls Church, Annandale, Herndon and McLean) — is "a readiness check to see if individual schools and their parents are ready for this change for the coming school year, or …
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Karen
4:00 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
"More AAP Centers does not mean better centers! I absolutely agree with Beverly and Laurie! FCPS has posted AAP enrollment projections for all middle schools: http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/expansion/PlanforMS.pdf Projected AAP Center enrollment at Poe MS in Year 3 is 33 students. How can such a new AAP Center have "equal quality" with an already established AAP Center with two, three, or even … more ›