Here is the informational packet for the Round table discussions on Wheaton High School and Edison High School future plans. The Informational Meeting to discuss these Options is January 11, 2011.
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Showing posts with label High Tech High. Show all posts
Saturday, January 8, 2011
UPDATE ON EDISON-WHEATON ROUNDTABLE, IMPT. MEETING TUESDAY
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MCPS will hold its one and only informational meeting NEXT TUESDAY, January 11, 2011 from 7--9 p.m. at Wheaton High School, to discuss the fate of Thomas Edison High School of Technology and Wheaton and different "approaches" that "define the relationship" between them.
This is only opportunity to hear about possible "approaches" to combining the schools or keeping them separate. The purpose of the meeting is to gather community feedback, which will be incorporated into the a report given to the superintendent. The deadline for feedback is January 12, 2011.
According to MCPS, the approaches were developed by members of a Roundtable, which has met three times. The Roundtable has been criticized as being powerless and not representing all stakeholders. Parents and schools representatives from the entire county are not included, even though Edison is a county-wide school and its only career vocational school.
Please note that Edison ceases to exist except under approaches 1 & 2 and that many Roundtable members do not recall discussing making Wheaton into a "high-tech high school," yet it is presented as an approach the group "developed."
A "high-tech high school" is what MCPS was planning to do had it received a federal grant and what many Roundtable members believe will ultimately be the superintendent's recommendation.
The Roundtable report will not contain any recommendations; members are not allowed to vote on anything and the process was not designed to reach any consensus. It is simply a way for MCPS to say it sought community input.
Other dates are as follows:
1/18/11--Final roundtable meeting
1/22/11-- Roundtable advisory group report sent to superintendent and Board of Education
2/8/11 -- Superintendent makes recommendation to BOE for action
2/28/11 -- BOE holds work session to discuss superintendent recommendation
3/15/11 -- BOE public hearing
3/28/11 -- BOE action
Submitted by GUEST.
MCPS will hold its one and only informational meeting NEXT TUESDAY, January 11, 2011 from 7--9 p.m. at Wheaton High School, to discuss the fate of Thomas Edison High School of Technology and Wheaton and different "approaches" that "define the relationship" between them.
This is only opportunity to hear about possible "approaches" to combining the schools or keeping them separate. The purpose of the meeting is to gather community feedback, which will be incorporated into the a report given to the superintendent. The deadline for feedback is January 12, 2011.
According to MCPS, the approaches were developed by members of a Roundtable, which has met three times. The Roundtable has been criticized as being powerless and not representing all stakeholders. Parents and schools representatives from the entire county are not included, even though Edison is a county-wide school and its only career vocational school.
Please note that Edison ceases to exist except under approaches 1 & 2 and that many Roundtable members do not recall discussing making Wheaton into a "high-tech high school," yet it is presented as an approach the group "developed."
A "high-tech high school" is what MCPS was planning to do had it received a federal grant and what many Roundtable members believe will ultimately be the superintendent's recommendation.
The Roundtable report will not contain any recommendations; members are not allowed to vote on anything and the process was not designed to reach any consensus. It is simply a way for MCPS to say it sought community input.
Other dates are as follows:
1/18/11--Final roundtable meeting
1/22/11-- Roundtable advisory group report sent to superintendent and Board of Education
2/8/11 -- Superintendent makes recommendation to BOE for action
2/28/11 -- BOE holds work session to discuss superintendent recommendation
3/15/11 -- BOE public hearing
3/28/11 -- BOE action
Submitted by GUEST.
Friday, September 24, 2010
High Tech High is FREE in California, MCPS? Sorry, pay up.
Superintendent Jerry Weast has applied for a Magnet School Assistance Grant to convert Edison High School and Wheaton High School into a "High Tech High" for Montgomery County.
Superintendent Weast wants to pattern this new school after the High Tech High in San Diego, California. You can hear him talk to the County Council about his plan at the County Council and Board of Education "lunch" on September 21, 2010. Click here for exclusive video of the meeting.
When the MCPS High Tech High is open, however, there will be one BIG difference from the High Tech High in San Diego!
San Diego High Tech High students attend for FREE. It is a FREE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
There are NO COURSE FEES, NO SUPPLY FEES, AND NO FEES FOR SAFETY EQUIPMENT for students to attend High Tech High in San Diego like there are at Edison High School in Montgomery County. Click here (go to pages 5-6) to see the list of fees that greet MCPS families when they apply to send their child to Edison High School.
MCPS families may get a High Tech High in Montgomery County, but what is unknown is what it will cost to send your child there. Free public schools, a right under the Maryland Constitution, don't exist in Montgomery County, Maryland.
So MCPS, what's it going to cost parents and guardians to send a child to the new MCPS High Tech High?
Superintendent Weast wants to pattern this new school after the High Tech High in San Diego, California. You can hear him talk to the County Council about his plan at the County Council and Board of Education "lunch" on September 21, 2010. Click here for exclusive video of the meeting.
When the MCPS High Tech High is open, however, there will be one BIG difference from the High Tech High in San Diego!
San Diego High Tech High students attend for FREE. It is a FREE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
There are NO COURSE FEES, NO SUPPLY FEES, AND NO FEES FOR SAFETY EQUIPMENT for students to attend High Tech High in San Diego like there are at Edison High School in Montgomery County. Click here (go to pages 5-6) to see the list of fees that greet MCPS families when they apply to send their child to Edison High School.
MCPS families may get a High Tech High in Montgomery County, but what is unknown is what it will cost to send your child there. Free public schools, a right under the Maryland Constitution, don't exist in Montgomery County, Maryland.
So MCPS, what's it going to cost parents and guardians to send a child to the new MCPS High Tech High?
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