Parents and students from schools across Montgomery County filled the seats in the most recent school board meeting to advocate for fixes and replacements to aging schools in their communities.

They were there for the school board’s expected vote on the plan to prioritize which schools get renovated, replaced or repaired in the school system’s six-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).

In some cases, they found themselves lobbying at cross purposes.

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For example, 13-year-old Rose Kahn, a seventh grader at Forest Oak Middl

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