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[quote=Anonymous][i]Students and parents are pushing MCPS to redistrict school boundaries to increase diversity and close the achievement gap that persists in schools throughout Montgomery County.

Concerned citizens of the county argue that the way schools are currently arranged allows for segregation within MCPS. Some schools are primarily white and usually in high income neighborhoods such as Walt Whitman High School (HS) in Bethesda and Winston Churchill HS in Potomac, among others. While other schools primarily consist of minorities and have higher poverty rates, known as the Downcounty Consortium (DCC) schools. The DCC high schools include Blair HS, Einstein HS, Kennedy HS, Northwood HS and Wheaton HS.

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The idea to redistrict schools was proposed by the 41st Student Member of Board, Ananya Tadikonda. The issue of redistricting was brought to the Board of Education (BOE) during the 2018 summer and was officially added to their agenda Sept. 13, 2018. MCPS hired an external consultant to do a districtwide school boundary study Jan. 8. The results are expected by the spring of 2020. This will give MCPS more information about how the schools are districted now and what changes should be made.[/i] ….

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