Frederick County MD to Restructure Middle Schools

Now I like living in Frederick County, MD, but the local newspaper leaves much to be desired. This story tells us about a signficant change to the county's middle school structure, but doesn't do much to tell us what those changes would be. Here is the only graph telling us what might change:

Potential changes range from modifying instruction techniques for gifted students, to introducing reading programs designed to give teachers instantaneous reports on student performance, to creating a unified daily schedule for all 13 middle schools in the county.

Be nice to what is going on.

The other question I have is why it took the county 11 years to revisit middle school structure. It just seems to me that middle schoolers get lost both academically and administratively.