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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP. Boasting about ACPS "growing" is the sort of unsubstantiated bluster I was talking about.

ALL systems in NoVA are growing. That's a factor of population growth in general. That ACPS has more students is not a indicator the desirability of the schools. If you don't understand what I mean -- you don't see APS and FFX crowing about population growth -- you see them lamenting it and freaking out.[/quote]

No it's not bluster. Our School Board chair boosts about how ACPS is growing at each school board meeting, but never in the same statement does she reassure the community that the system is capable of doing well by these new students nor those already enrolled. That's a shockingly vacant attitude given ACPS past and recent history and where it remains on VDOE ranking system, and one worth great thought.

Yes, local jurisdictions are growing too. Why don't you go read the recent Montgomery County tax hike thread, PP, and see how many decent hard working citizens feel about influx due to sanctuary city status and even, is it possible, the seemingly endless democratic invite for more. In Alexandria City it's clear: our residential tax base is stretched currently on ACPS support at expense of other basic general fund citizen expenses. Someone wins, others loose. Furthermore, if Alexandria City truly wants to grow it's tax base through new and large amounts of serious Businesses, it isn't the number of students in ACPS that counts (and will come to the table in business negotiations), it's the academic quality of ACPS. So far as I and many others see it, we loose on that point.[/quote]

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