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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child in ACPS right now and I know there is a lot of advice on what parents can do to help their child's performance in public schools. But is there anything parents, individually or collectively, can do to improve their community's public schools? I saw ACPS's news flash today that ACPS was one of six school districts in the country to receive a Raytheon Engineering is Elementary® (EiE®) District Scholarship grant award of $37,000. This is really great news (I think), but what really is the barrier to public schools being able to adopt these types of innovative curriculum through other mechanisms than just wishes and prayers? Is it money? Can the school PTA not launch an initiative to seek donations from the community to support the funding of innovative learning programs in their school? Is the problem egalitarianism or, in other words, prohibiting parents from "rich" communities to invest in their community public schools because of some perceived need to level the playing field among public schools? Speaking for myself, I would probably be more motivated to donate to the PTA if the donations were tied to funding specific initiatives and resources that would be utilized by the school to educate our kids. Maybe they already do this and I'm just clueless. If so, please enlighten me.

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Honestly, it would be great if you succeed, but many MANY others have tried to forge this path and failed. Which is why so many families move or go private as they approach middle school.

So, I don't have an answer. I tried for seven years and then we gave up and moved to Arlington. We're very happy we did. It's a world of difference.
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