"Using MSAP funds, as well as the combined faculty and assets of Wheaton High School and the half-day Edison career and technology education program, MCPS will open the Montgomery County High Tech High School (MCHTHS), a magnet high school. The goal of MCHTHS will be to prepare all students for a rigorous college experience as well as the demands of the modern science technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. (...)
"Currently, the comprehensive Wheaton High School and the systemwide half-day career and technology education program at Edison occupy the future site of MCHTHS. Using MSAP funds and scheduled full reconstruction of the building included in the MCPS Capital Improvements Program, MCPS will combine these programs into the comprehensive nontraditional Montgomery County High Tech High School."
Another question:
1. When did the Board of Education, when voting on the capital plan, vote to combine Edison and Wheaton HS into the MCHTHS?
I believe this completely misstates what the BOE did. I believe they only approved funds for a feasibility study to examine whether to combine them. PERIOD.
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ReplyDeleteWhen was this Feasibility Study?
Here is the October 13, 2009 Board of Ed discussion of Edison HS:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/minutes/2009/101309.min.pdf
and here is the County Council Report that the Board of Ed was discussing that included discussion of Edison HS:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/council/olo/reports/pdf/2009-10.pdf
Mr/Ms. Anonymous: which is the part that "misstates what the BOE did?"
ReplyDeleteThe above quotation: "Using MSAP funds and scheduled full reconstruction of the building included in the MCPS Capital Improvements Program, MCPS will combine these programs into the comprehensive nontraditional Montgomery County High Tech High School" was taken DIRECTLY FROM THE GRANT APPLICATION.
If the statement in the Grant Application is not true, then why did MCPS use that language in the grant application? I'm just wondering if a decision has already been made in the CIP to combine the programs? If so, when? If not, then why did they use that language in the grant as if a decision HAD already been made?