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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools are a reflection of the parents in the neighborhood.  [/quote]

It's this. The impoverished schools actually receive more resources from the federal government, not less. It's not the teachers or the admin, it's the kids and parents/families.[/quote]

“They get more money per pupil” is not a valid argument. The needs are greater per pupil. They may get more funding but it still falls short of making up for the lack of community support and resources. [/quote]

MCPS is the lack of support and resources.  Our school doesn't offer a lot of AP classes or advanced classes in math/sciences.  It really sucks.  Kids are forced onto a slower track or to MC, which logistically is difficult.[/quote]

Both the extra funding and the base funding are spent in line with the emphases chosen by the BOE and by past administrations.  Those emphases have included academic excellence in name only, redefining it for those schools as avoiding academic failure.

The new budget doesn't come close to the level needed to keep those emphases while affording access to advanced classes/ensuring diligent provision of available enrichments across the system.  Choices include raising taxes, re-examining priorities, re-jiggering the funding algorithms from central to the individual schools better to achieve parity of opportunity or accepting the status quo.  The first and third likely would be opposed by those with relatively high-performing school pyramids, while the second and fourth likely would be opposed by the opposite.[/quote]

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