Edison High School Designs To Be Presented Tuesday

Seven worksessions over the last four months will culminate Tuesday night in a about the schematic designs for the modernization.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will take place at the high school in Room 2206, starting at 7 p.m. Designs for the modernization of will also be shown.

The design committee includes community members, Montgomery County Public Schools representatives and Grimm and Parker Architects. Theresa Defino, an Edison parent, is one of the committee members representing the high school.

In an email to the Board of Education that was posted on the Parents Coalition blog on Friday, Defino called attention to a design change made by MCPS to a corner of the school building. MCPS made this change to the architect’s original design in the last scheduled meeting on April 12, she told Patch, but the committee met again on April 22 for further discussion.

Defino wants more details on the pros and cons of each option. “The onus should be on MCPS to defend their changes,” she said, "since they deviate from the original designs by the architect, which we had seen for many months."

Presentations and notes from each worksession are posted on the MCPS modernization project website.

In a straw vote in March, the Montgomery County Council indicated their , but the Board of Education must still approve the design.

The modernization of Wheaton is scheduled to be completed in August 2015, with Edison to follow two years later.