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[quote=Anonymous]I get what the previous poster said.  The City Council has no formal control over school operations--all it does is decide how much money to give the school district.

The school board hires the superintendent, allocates the school $$$$, makes policy, and "ovesees" the schools.    So, I can see the point that if you're concerned about
school quality--you should be more interested in the School Board races, not the City Council races.

But, truth be told, the problems at ACPS can be traced largely to City Council policies/decisions.  It's the City Council that insists that we operate as a virtual sanctuary city for illegal aliens, and that we keep building/maintaining large amounts of public housing, and that we concentrate all the immigrants/poor into certain neighborhoods/large complexes where the kids are surrounded with drugs, alcohol, violence and lawlessness.

Until the City Council decides to stop making Alexandria a magnet for the wrong crowd, our schools will continue to struggle because our student population is overwhelmingly "hard to educate."

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