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Nothing happened in MKE.

Someone is conflating the City of Milwaukee public schools district with the town districts throughout Milwaukee county.  Property tax rates per $100 of home value are indeed high in Milwaukee and Chicago.

[b]Many many states do not do [/b]the asinine huge 500k-5 million+ population county thing for the school district level. That doesn’t serve anyone well and results in $$$$ billion mismanaged budgets and one size fits all curriculum fails. Too many students, too many admins, too many teachers, too many zip codes, too many cities/villages, too many square miles, to many dollars flying around.

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OK, but Maryland does, and MCPS is in Maryland.[/quote]

That’s OPs point: huge county level public school districts are highly ineffective and worse. Township model is better.

500 sq miles
220 schools
160,000 students
600-800 students per MS and HS grade
Biggest employer in the county
5 weather zones
Takes 90 minutes to drive across in rush hour

[b]DCPS is the real turnaround story since 2004[/b]. charter school success, NW DC schools kicking @$$ academically and athletically, free PK for all for decades, everyone walks to school, strong Pk-8 curriculum, great ECs in ES.  Only downside is the $2k per kid pta fees for non title 1 schools since DC doesn’t give those schools much of the kitty.

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What DCPS turnaround you're talking about?[/quote]

DCPS is a turnaround story. Michelle Rhee successfully broke the Teacher’s union, awarded more pay for better teacher performance, fired poor performing principals, lotteried off the extra seats in schools that we’re not at full capacity in places like Cleveland Park (because those kids attend privates). After she left, her lieutenant, Kaya Henderson continued with these reforms for many, many years. DC also allowed charter schools which gave parents a choice. [/quote]
+1000

Meanwhile MCPS 2011 onward:
Paid itself to make the failed k-8 Curriculum 2.0
Ramped up MAP and Pearson annual testing
Got rid of finals in HS
Rounded grades for MS and HS
New cohort driver to go to Center for Excellence (fka Gifted centers)
50% of students test below grade level in math and reading
Scrapped discipline for restorative justice conversations
30 mins a week gym class (national minimum, DCPS has 3 PE/week for ES)
Made 90 min blocks of reading and math by getting rid art, PE, music frequency
Severely overcrowded schools with trailer classrooms
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Meanwhile DCPS 2011 onward:

90% of the students test below grade level in math and reading
Over 50% of HS graduates can't read
0ver 75% of HS graduates can't do basic math
No discipline whatsoever
Truancy is rampant. 
No gifted programs .
It's McDonald's or jail for the vast majority.
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That’s all false, get the update. And it’s Yale or jail. Plus all the free GW, AU, Gtown college course you can take for free and for credit if you’re gifted. What does mcps do, send you to moco community college?

Dcps is the same barbell as MCPS: tons of good performing students, and tons of terrible performing students. But mcps really takes the cake for self-imposed destruction of the whole system for everybody. Dcps doesn’t do that.

And why does mcps only have even gifted programs or magnets seats for 1% of its students and not 4-5% like other districts in VA, NY, ma, etc.  Must not have enough talented students that need a bigger challenge, right? [/quote]

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