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[quote=Anonymous]Based on your various criteria, I would recommend that you look in Howard County.  First, you are not likely to find a house in MoCo that will meet your price restrictions in a good school zone.  In your price range, you are getting the weaker parts of the school system.

If you look in Howard County you will get more bang for your buck and you will have an easier time finding a home in your price range, in a stronger school.  Additionally, Howard County is a lot more accessible to airports (very close to BWI, which IMHO is the best of the three DC area airports).

Additionally, Howard County has decent special needs and IEP processing.  Although my children are NT, I have a few friends in the school system who have special needs children and although they did have to work actively to get all that they wanted into their IEPs, once they had their IEPs in place, the school system did well to honor the IEP and help the children.  The fact that you already have an IEP from your current school system will be a bonus that should make getting accommodations easier for you wherever you decide.

Unfortunately, I will caution you that there are race biases in the various MD school systems.  AA actually has more race segregation in both housing and school.  It's not overt, but you'll see that in many of the more upscale areas, that there are fewer minorities and significantly higher concentrations of white residents and students.  The same can also be said of Montgomery and Howard, but to a lesser extent.  I believe that there are fewer race issues (not none, but fewer) in Howard County schools than in Montgomery or AA counties.  The Columbia/North Laurel areas are ones that I would recommend you consider.[/quote]

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