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1. It needs subscription to read. I could just barely see the map for a glance before it asks me to sign up.

2. That does not answer the question.

When drawing the map, one can choose one's own binning size. If I choose, e.g. a county as the smallest bin, then MoCo does not have a race composition that stands out from other "counties". 
If I choose a smaller bin, maybe certain "bins" within our county would stand out as having more white or more black. But the question is, how "fine" or how "coarse" should one choose the bin, and WHY?

In other words, how "UNIFORM" the race composition does one need before one stops picking on this "segregation" issue?[/quote]

If you read MCPS regulation FAA-RA, in the description of the demographic characteristics factor, it says they want to prevent [b]"significant disparity in the demographic characteristics between 
schools in the affected geographic areas that cannot be justified by any other factor." [/b]Seems pretty reasonable.[/quote]

That does sound reasonable. Most of the cases, the "disparity ... between schools" is well justified by one simple factor: population composition in the related geographic areas. Is there any factor more straight-forward (when considering the demographics of schools) than that?  Nothing needs to be done from the school side.

If population composition changes significantly, and MCPS still want to maintain the old demographic characteristics between schools, I would call that "not  justified by any other factor." 
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And this supports what many people have been saying--despite DCUM claims to the contrary--that there is no MCPS plan to bus kids across the county to schools far from their homes.[/quote]

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