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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going on now in Malibu and Salt Lake City. Areas with higher performing students are working to split off from large ineffective, bureaucratic systems. The Malibu - Santa Monica split is being complicated by the amount of money Santa Monica wants from Malibu but it looks like this will eventually happen. CA actually makes it harder for systems to do this so it might be easier here in MD.

There is a tipping point in frustration when a school system only takes from one area to benefit another even if the need in the other area is greater.  If students in the W clusters are no eligible for county-wide magnet programs, building renovations are constantly delayed, parents can't fund raise for things like teacher aides or facility improvements then perhaps its time to split. [/quote]

I wish.  but Bethesda and potomac property taxes subsidize so much of the rest of the district's school budget they'd be losing their golden goose of fun money and their high test scores.

Philosophically I agree, and it IS RARE to see U.S. school districts by mega-huge county and not by town or city. There can be such differences and need for customization, that attempting to serve 200 totally different schools from 20+ totally different towns and lengthy commutes (for teachers too), large square mileage, and general unique issues in demographics in MoCo it is a terrible proposition. Furthermore, such large, large school districts attract some real ego-boosting administrators bent on crazy personal initiatives and never go from community to community, just from fire to fire. [/quote]

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