Here we go. The much anticipated video excerpt from the April 14, 2009 Board of Education Meeting. (Thanks MagnetParent2009!) where Superintendent Jerry Weast muses on the magnets. For those who want to see the whoooooole thing, here’s video of the entire BOE meeting on the MCPS website. See the players live and in action!
A major portion of the first half of the meeting centered on AP and IB programming, including testimony by AEI’s Marty Creel. Never before seen IB info data on never before seen PowerPoint slides.
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The video hasn’t yet been been divided by agenda item and so I sat through the whole first part (We watch so you don’t have to!), laboriously pausing, rewinding, pausing with a navigation slider that kept half appearing and disappearing. Don’t know if it’s my browser or what, but what a huge technology fail. Hope they fix it.
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