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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School systems are supposed to be local and responsive to the community needs. This is why school systems are not nationalized. As the surrounding suburbs of metro areas grow, they out grow their original school system. Breaking up is really the only solution.

One of the PR flops in the Starr office years ago was trying to constantly claim that MCPS was the #1 school system in the country. It was part of the twitter campaign to make him a national leader in education. No one could understand where he was getting the impression that MCPS was #1. He was only comparing MCPS to school systems of equal size for which there were only five - LA, Chicago, Detroit and one other one. They finally stopped doing this.

It highlights an important point though that there are only 5 systems in the country this large and they don't work[/quote]

Your numbers are off. MCPS is the 17th largest school system in the country. FCPS is slightly larger. I'm not saying the size is great -- I think it should probably be broken up -- but let's at least use accurate data. [/quote]

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