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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS has a mandate to distribute funding in the same manner countywide. Some schools get more resources based on need, yes. But it's not like many school districts throughout the US, where literally that school's specific tax base funds that school or cluster of schools. It "shouldn't" be the case that rich schools have more resources and better facilities because the families with kids who attend are rich. Not to say this doesn't happen, because it does. Especially because the parents at wealthier schools push harder and are listened to more. But it's not like places where the wealthy township has much more money to go hog wild and the neighboring township in the same county has a less affluent tax base and no budget, and that directly explains why one school is new and beautiful and the other is falling apart.

It's even true that boosters or PTAs in MCPS cannot raise funds for additional paraeducators and many such resources-- because of the inequity issue. (I believe they can do this in DCPS.)  [/quote]

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