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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way it will be Calvin Ball. Howard County had a moderate (Republican) County Executive, but voted Democratic and are now outraged with what they got.

He is so unpopular in HoCo because of development and redistricting, I can't see him as a viable Gubernatorial candidate.[/quote]

He is [b]extremely[/b] popular in HoCo- what are you even  talking  about? And your comments about developers and redistricting are flat out untrue.

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There are a lot of people in HoCo pissed about redistricting, but they tend to blame the school board as opposed to Ball. Ball is somewhat responsible for the overcrowding in schools though. Too much unchecked development in HoCo, and developers haven’t been made to contribute enough capital to building new schools. That’s poor planning.[/quote]

Which is appropriate.  The school redistricting is not at all in the hands of the county council or the county executive.  Dr. Michael Martirano, the school superintendent is the one who is responsible for and leads the redistricting efforts.  Any concerns or disagreement with redistricting should be focused at the school board of education and school superintendent's office.

Martirano and his staff and the BoE have worked on trying to adjust the overcrowding issues, but they are frequently fought by homeowners who do not want their children bussed to further schools just to resolve overcrowding issues.  Many people buy their homes in neighborhoods zoned for certain schools and want their children to go to those schools.  They want the school population decreased, but everyone wants someone else's kids to be taken out of their school and sent to another school.  Dr. Martirano also does try to redistrict octagons to rebalance socio-economically.  The idea when they redistrict is that they try to bus kids from lower income neighborhoods into higher SE based schools and vice versa, which really inflames a lot of the wealthier families.  But the goal is to try to balance the number of FARMS families in each school to allow for more balanced school communities.[/quote]

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