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Article: Anne Arundel schools brace for Fort Meade influx.(METROPOLITAN)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2007
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Byline: Kristen Chick, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Anne Arundel County schools officials say they are struggling to prepare for an influx of students when thousands of new jobs arrive at Fort Meade because job projections are rising while student estimates have not been updated.
An Army report released last month announced that 22,000 new jobs would come to the military base by 2011. But county officials are still making plans based on an older projection of nearly 5,800 new jobs because they don't have the specific information they need based on the new projection.
"We're not sure exactly what to make of them," student demographic specialist Chuck ...