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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can't afford NOT to fund Kirwan.  The schools are in trouble.  You want businesses (and I'm not talking about the retail-on-the-bottom of condos businesses,  I'm talking Fortune 500 or 1000 businesses) to move to Montgomery County? The schools must improve. Otherwise, no business is coming here.

It's a lot less expensive to educate a child, then put them in jail later. Not to mention, a good education leads to a good job, which leads to those same children paying more in taxes as an adult.

Their Kirwan Bill had a stopgap if the county collections dropped. This is why Hogan, the "moderate" Republican, sucks. He may be a great leader during this pandemic, but I hate every one of his policy decisions.[/quote]

That’s ridiculous.  Schools are not the reason that businesses are not coming to MoCo.  It is the regulatory and tax environment.  MD, and even more so MoCo, have rules and taxes that make it difficult and expensive to operate here.  The business climate in VA and DC, to say nothing of other parts of the country, is much more friendly.

Despite griping here (and some legit problems) MoCo still has better schools than the vast majority of the country.  They are better than DC and at least on par with VA.  It is not schools that are causing the lack of jobs.

Sorry, if that fact doesn’t fit your political agenda.[/quote]

+1 Montgomery County currently ranks 4th in per pupil spending in the US at $16,109 per student and yet we still can't get the job done.

Baltimore, Prince George's Count and Howard County are also in the top 10. Perhaps the issue isn't money but how it is being used and managed.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2019/comm/largest-school-districts.html
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