I am requesting any documents that list the number of Long Reach, Centennial, and Howard High students who began this school year as part of the Jump Start program. Also include the number from each school that started at Oakland Mills and River Hill and the number that returned to their home schools. Finally, I am requesting the total cost (including transportation) for this program for this school year.
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Response Notes
In addition to the responsive documents below, per your additional request for “the number of students on IEPs from each school and to each school that are part of the Jump Start program” staff are able to pull lists of student names with IEPs who also currently participate in JumpStart, however because those contain individual student-level record information including name, student ID number and IEP status – which is protected under both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) and MPIA GP § 4-313 – we are providing the total number here: 34 with IEPs. While the number of sending and receiving schools for all students under Special Education services was calculated from individual student records for the anticipated SY2019 participants (in the March 23, 2018, Board Memo provided about), that data has not been calculated for the current participants. Please note, under the MPIA process, and as advised in the Fourteenth Edition of the Maryland Public Information Act Manual created by Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General, an agency is only obligated to produce existing records and is not required to generate new data or summarize data.
This report provided to the Board of Education on October 2, 2018, contains the current participant counts for SY2019, the number of students who returned to their home schools after initial acceptance, and estimated costs for the program. It also separates trailing siblings.
This email correspondence to Board of Education members dated September 14, 2018, included SY2019 participants by sending and receiving school along with trailing sibling counts.
See Program 2802 on pages 310-313. There are no existing records of total costs for JumpStart for the current school year outside those budgeted and current transportation contracts. Staff indicates students begin registering for college courses in November, at which time we would have a better idea of actual costs.
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