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Board Of Education Approves Starr's B-CC Boundary Plan

East Bethesda will be assigned to Bethesda Elementary for K-5 beginning in 2013.

The Montgomery County Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday evening to approve superintendent Joshua P. Starr's for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase cluster.

The vote cements a plan to redraw the boundaries between four elementary schools – and schools. Starr's recommendation drew on a boundary study that looked at five redistricting options and examined issues such as relieving overcrowding, maintaining racial and demographic balance at all the schools and simplifying matriculation patterns for the East Bethesda neighborhood.

Starr’s approved recommendation includes reassigning the East Bethesda community to Bethesda Elementary beginning in kindergarten, a move the

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However, it also at Bethesda Elementary and increases it at Rosemary Hills and North Chevy Chase.

Rosemary Hills residents urging the board not to choose Starr's recommended plan, which they said would negatively affect diversity at the schools. At the same time, the East Bethesda community urged the board to accept Starr's recommendation.

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Starr's recommeded boundary changes are expected to go into effect in August of 2013.


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