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Old 09-09-2008, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Boston
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just curious who are the best. Chicago, NYC, DC, Detroit are usually the worst, wanted to know the best. Is the term "Best" relative?
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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talking cities with 400k people and above; Virginia Beach, VA, San Jose, Wake County (Raleigh, Wake Forest, Chapel Hill), NC.
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Cypress Fairbanks ISD in Houston
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Portland, Maine
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Actually, I have heard Boston's is in pretty good shape. Baltimore schools are still in trouble but they have really made leaps and bounds in the last few years.
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
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Long Beach Unified School District is often rated one of the best urban school districts in the country. Long Beach,CA has a little over 400,000 residents and the school district is the 30th largest in the country serving just under 100,000 students.
-Granted it is still an urban school district and cannot compare to the more affluent suburban schools in the area (like almost anywhere in the country), but considering the situation Long Beach isn't bad. LBUSD was the winner of the second annual $1 million Broad Prize for Urban Education (in 2003). The Broad Prize is the largest education prize in the country awarded to urban school districts.

Los Angeles Unified is pretty much the pits. Some really high quality schools in the suburban cities that are in separate school distritcs, but then again those aren't facing urban conditions.
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:40 PM
 
Location: outer boroughs, NYC
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I actually don't think New York's is that bad, if only because there's lots of fairly-to-very affluent communities in the city. Don't get me wrong, it's still pretty bad - I'm just not sure it's one of the worst.
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:41 PM
 
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All of Upstate NY is great.
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
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All of Upstate NY is great.
I didn't know upstate NY was a big city
Are you talking about places like Buffalo or Syracuse and the schools in those cities. Remember, this is big city schools, not just anywhere.
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Chariton, Iowa
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We had a recruiter come in the other day and talk up Aldine down there in Houston...what's it like, westhou?
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Old 09-09-2008, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Houston
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We had a recruiter come in the other day and talk up Aldine down there in Houston...what's it like, westhou?
Aldine is a pretty good school district. Houston ISD is so bad that the other school districts in the area appear to be outstanding in comparison. Private schooling is a blessing to alot of people in inner Houston.
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