PLEASE READ: June 24 BOE Recap - Boundary Study and Academic Programming

[Elaine Liao Avin]

KP Community -

I want to highlight the message below that was pushed out by MCPS. The Board of Education (BOE) held a meeting on Tuesday, June 24th and covered two main things regarding Woodward:

• Initial themes based on boundary study survey feedback (as of June 20, 2025): Representative themes were shared but not exhaustive. Spilt articulation was mentioned as a specific concern and used schools like Silver Creek, Burning Tree, and Garrett Park.  Personally, I was concerned that KP was not also mentioned so this is a call/push to ask the KP community to fill out the individual survey and/or attend office hours (T 8-9 am, Th 6-7 pm, Fri 12 - 1 pm | Zoom Link: Meeting ID: 812 8216 3918 | Passcode: MCPS) to convey concerns.  SURVEY DEADLINE IS JULY 15th (and see KP survey guidance here)  MCPS is also holding virtual office hours for community input (I am on the Friday call as I write this and people are just conveying their concerns in this way as well)

  

• Secondary Program Analysis (High School Academic Programming): This was a greater focus for the BOE meeting relative to the Boundary Study. They shared an initial design which takes current programming that offers County, Region, and Local programming to a Region/Local model. They indicated more information and discussion is needed (and I am guessing why they sent out the message below the way they did because it would be a significant change from what we have today).

BOE MEETING RECAP:

Direct Video Link:  https://www.youtube.com/live/JUYKARx8fXU?t=12793s (time mark 3:33:13).

Short on Time?

Read this briefing document or listen to this audio 'podcast' form (about 14 min) that you can listen to at 2x speed (to further shorten the length) -- sorry in advance for the AI-generated voices :-)

Please feel free to forward as this is just a relay of the BOE meeting content.

Thank You

Elaine

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