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  "textContent": "A heated, long-fought battle in Maryland’s largest school district has come to a head.\n\nThe Montgomery County Board of Education has voted to approve major school boundary changes.\n\nThis is a decision that has been several months — maybe even years in the making.\n\nMany parents and students across the district have fought hard and passionately either advocating against or in favor of these changes and now, these families have learned the outcome.\n\nThe board voted on the two boundary change recommendations the superintendent made a few weeks ago.\n\nThe first recommendation moves students at Wootton High School to the brand-new Crown High School, and then also expand Damascus. To do this, the district is establishing boundary reassignments, affecting 31 elementary schools by changing their middle and/or high school assignments.\n\nThe second recommendation will reopen Charles Woodard High School and expand Northwood High School. This recommendation also includes boundary reassignments, affecting 19 elementary schools by again changing their middle and/or high school assignments.\n\nParents and students who oppose the plan made their 11th-hour appeals to the board Thursday afternoon, but ultimately, they failed.\n\nMany of them were from Wootoon High School and were begging the board to keep their school open and not move their students to Crown.\n\n\"Very disappointed, it’s one of the best schools in the state in the country. We literally put a pin in that school when we moved here. We said we want to be close to that school,\" MCPS parent Bryan Gibb.\n\n\"It's a community school, we’re a community. Our school should stay where it is it’s important for the future of generations to come,\" said Dr. Barbara Hirsch, a parent of a former Wootton High School student.\n\nDistrict officials have said these new boundaries are necessary to balance enrollment, tackle construction needs, and save a lot of money, and they say they made modifications to these plans after taking in community feedback.\n\nMCPS is stressing that the changes would be implemented for the 2027/2028 school year but that there are nuances to that — particularly for 8th, 11th and 12th grade students.",
  "title": "Montgomery County School board approves major boundary change plan"
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