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[quote=Anonymous][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]

+10000

The other benefit is that the Montgomery County leaders will need to actually think about revenue growth or at least justifying themselves to the state to get money. Now, state level taxes for education collected by Montgomery residents end up going to Baltimore. Montgomery county leaders never fight for this dollars because they have a golden goose and use it as a bargaining chip. If Montgomery County loses the W school areas as their guaranteed personal school funding pot they'll need to start playing ball at the state level which they should have been doing already for their constituency. This means justifying their requests and being transparent. [/quote]

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