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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is impossible to have the discussion around city-based versus county-based school systems without talking about race and integration.

County-based school districts are more common in the southern US, where formal segregation meant you could have a county-wide school without worrying about sending your white child to school with Black kids.

In the North, where formal segregation was not in place, de facto segregation evolved to replace it. This took the form of municipality-level school districts, because neighborhoods and towns were still segregated.

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whether a public school system is county-run or city-run or village-run across this whole country is not mainly or at all due to racial segregation in places the first half of the 20th century.

If you like big gov't you like county run - can slosh around more money and do more politically

If you want localized gov't you do city run.

If you have no viable local gov't, no real tax revenue, and no educated populace, the federal or state or large county will take other's tax revenue and use it towards you. Brain drain is prevalent. Chicago schools, Milwaukee schools, LA schools, etc. MoCo is lucky they have such a barbell where the west county can subsidize all of Central Office and the east county. 
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