Empty seats at vocational school concern Montgomery County officials

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Half of the workspaces are empty at Montgomery County’s Thomas Edison High School for vocational education.

The school’s overall enrollment has fallen to 524 students this year for its half-day program, down from 746 in 2006-07. And while the public school system projects nearly 700 students next year enrolled in programs from car repair to cosmetology, it could hold 1,000.

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