CAPS hosts town education meeting
On The 23rd of April CAPS hosted a Cheverly Town meeting on the topic of education. Below is a summary of that meeting.
The new model of JP Hoyer was announced and discussed. In essence that plan is that for the 2008-2009 school year the school will be adding 3 more Montessori classrooms. 2 classrooms that will serve 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders. 1 classroom will be added to the current 1 to serve 3-5 year olds. In all bringing the school up to 4 Montessori classrooms. for the 2008-2009 school year 4 year old students can enroll directly to the school. All other levels and ages will be filled from the wait list from Robert Goddard. It has been highly suggested that if you have a student at one of these other levels to call the Principal @ Hoyer. For the 2009-2010 school year they will be adding 2 classrooms to serve students in grades 4-6. At this point the school will also have been assigned boundaries and entered into the same lottery system that serves other specialty programs in the county.
Assistant Superintendent Bridgewaters then announced and discussed the decision to bring in new leadership at Spellman. This conversation was long but in essence she outlined the process for hiring a Principal. Step one is HR screening the applicants, step 2 is interviews with a committee of Teachers and Parents, Then the candidates who pass that round go to the “chiefs” in Upper Marlboro, then the passing candidates from that round go to the Superintendent for final decision making. She also seemed to focus on the fact that they were looking for a leader that welcomed and would foster parent and community participation.
There was a brief conversation at the end regarding Weekday Nursery. Lots of praise for the program, and some ideas, and hopefully it go the subject on peoples minds. They are looking for ideas on how to grow the program.