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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should follow New Jersey system - every town/township is a separate school district.  Each having its own Primary, Middle, High Schools and a superintendent called School District Superintendent.  Each school district operates within the parameters conforming to National and State Education Standards.  That way, each town residents have more say in how a school district is run.  Only those towns where a majority of residents opt for grading system similar to current MCPS grading system will have that.  Other towns will have traditional comprehensive exam system and/or letter grades with "+" or "-" prefixes.  We will also have less bureaucracy and less resistance to change.[/quote]

Are we waving magic wands here, to make things that are impossible happen? Because if we are, I can come up with much better impossible ideas than "Maryland should be like New Jersey".[/quote]

I'm from NJ.  NJ school systems are SO INEFFICIENT, there is no economy of scale, because there is a superintendent for each little town.  The admin overhead alone for each mini school system there is ridiculous, and no doubt contributes to the high property taxes in NJ.

NJ did have a state supreme court case some years ago (Abbott) that was about inequities in local school systems;  it has required compensatory funding to lower-income districts, which is a good thing since there are greater needs in low-income communities. http://edlawcenter.org/litigation/abbott-v-burke/abbott-history.html

Our whole system in the US of property-tax-based school funding supports big inequities in education, and is a problem.  [/quote]

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