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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Local control over public schools is a failure. School Boards didn't always have so much power.

https://www.educationnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ednext_XXII_3_kogan.pdf

The worrying findings documented in the research—that school-board members face minimal electoral pressure to improve student outcomes, that they are often cross-pressured by employee interest 
groups, and that they do not prioritize the interests of minority-student populations—is largely confirmed by school-board members themselves. I

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2018-03-23/commentary-the-failed-promise-of-local-control-of-schools

"The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, was supposed to unleash a wave of innovation by getting Uncle Sam off the backs of state and local educators and restoring local control. Guess what? It doesn't look like they are doing much of anything new or different ... Despite all this flexibility, the promise of local control fails to deliver. Instead, local control offers a legacy of racial segregation, funding inequity and academic mediocrity."[/quote]

at least none of this applies to MCPS since they're exclusively focused on closing the gap.[/quote]

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