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[quote=Anonymous]Sigh, I don't think you are getting it. There are always three pathways to any civic change a.) political b.) courts or c.) legislative.

For political - representatives of the new district petition for their own school district and the state of MD grants the request. The state doesn't dismantle the Montgomery County level system but removes the residents from the new district.

For the courts -when the state denies the petition the representatives file suit. As they did in many of the other states. There are several avenues where the practice of the county system which would deny the creation local independent district would run counter to other state constitutional protections. If the representatives of the new district lose and they can make a broader constitutional argument they can then escalate up to the Supreme Court.

For legislative- sure the residents can work to pass a new law explicitly stating that residents have a right to form their own independent school system.

You don't need a new law to do something that isn't prohibited by law and just has not been done or pursued in the past. The entire premise behind state level rather federal control to enable states to change and grow to be flexible to the shifting needs of their jurisdictions and communities. The population and areas within Montgomery County are much different today than they were 50-100 years ago.

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