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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hogan hates MoCo, so don't expect anything to trickle here.

He's a big Catholic, right? There's likely a connection.

He cut state funding to the universities and to public schools---including MoCo. It's not good, people.

[b]Why not improve the public schools in low income areas instead of selecting a small number of kids to go to private school? [/b]It's window dressing---it's the easy way out. Instead, we should demand that ALL public schools provide a high quality education.

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Because we've done this and it doesn't work!  Maybe it's time to try something new?  Let the lower income students who are more motivated attend private schools and see what happens.

MoCo already provides lower income students with free breakfast and lower cost lunch, offers Saturday School, buses kids who need special programs, etc.  We spend SO much money per student already, and yet the lower income students still don't perform as well.  The current system is not working, so time for a new approach.  [/quote]

Just, for the record, MCPS doesn't provide free lunch.  That's a federal program.  Busing for special needs students is also federally mandated.  [/quote]

Potatoes, potatoes …. federal funding is given to the school to provide those programs.  The kids are still fed at school and it has increased substantially over the last decade.  ESOL programs are through the roof.  I just applied for a private school that stated on its summer reading list that the book must be read in English no matter what your first language is, why are we spending so much money on ESOL programs?[/quote]

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