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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It has one of the highest concentrations of affluent  education parents in the country, so of course it will score well.  That really doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the district itself, though.[/quote]

It also has one of the highest concentrations of student from poor, uneducated, illiterate illegal aliens and single parent black communities, whom mostly score poorly.

Most of the budget, that doesn't go towards pension and benefits, goes toward the problem schools.  Well performing schools nickel and dime the parents and even have foundations for donations.  MCPS doesnt like this workaround, tho parents are paying thru high taxes and donations, thus demand 10%+ of any donation to a well functioning high school go to a poorly performing high school.

I'd tend to agree with OP. Would love to see a 10 year simulation model of what happens to this over capacitated, over taxed, over extended huge school district. Its trajectory is more of a basket case charity experiment than its former teach to potential and excel model. And then there's the curriculum 2.0 and myopic achievement gap focus. [/quote]

Montgomery Ciunty Maryland has one of the highest concentrations of students from poor and uneducated families?  LOL.  [/quote]

No other county in the Washington region, including the District of Columbia, experienced increases in poverty of the same magnitude during the late 2000s as MoCo.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2013/05/22-suburban-poverty-kneebone-berube

Data Point: In the three years between 2007 and 2010, Montgomery County shed more than 37,000 jobs, dropping below its 2000 jobs total by 2010.
At the same time that the county faced unprecedented economic challenges, it also experienced a rapid demographic transformation. The 2010 census revealed that, for the first time, non-Hispanic whites constituted less than half (49 percent) of the county’s residents, down from 73 percent two decades earlier. And while immigrants accounted for fewer than one in five residents in 1990, in 2010 they represented almost one-third of the population and almost 40 percent of poor residents.

Data Point: Between 2007 and 2010, the number of residents living below the federal poverty line grew by two-thirds, or more than 30,000 people, pushing the poverty rate up by nearly 3 percentage points.
Rapid increases in poverty, coupled with the shifting demographics, often left communities in suburban Montgomery County struggling to play catch-up without the resources to match the growing and changing needs of their residents.
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Where are they moving and living in MOCO?  PGCO also has a growing illegal undocumented population.  If you go on the VA forum, there's a long thread about the decline of FCPS.[/quote]

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