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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You think you bought something when you bought your house that isn't in your deed.  Sorry, it's not in there. DC needs the flexibility to make a workable citywide school system.[/quote]

I've come to the viewpoint that most big cities are too big to be managed as one citywide school system.  Let's divide DCPS into several districts with autonomous school boards and administrators and give each one the same per pupil annual allotment.   Like states, the DC government can function as a financing mechanism for school construction.  Eliminate most of the jobs in the central office.

This way, if one school district wanted to go lean on administration and provide enrichment options and hire master teachers, let them.  If another wants to use its money to provide "jobs for the community" and feather-bed political hacks, go for it!  Each local board of ed can set its own priorities because decision-making would be devolved much closer to the neighborhoods that is serves.  Because each district would get the same per pupil allocation, it can make its own decisions and live with the consequences.[/quote]

Yes, yes, we get the west-of-the-Park perspective. "Things work for us, so leave us alone." [/quote]

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