Create a Unified School District? Create a multitude of partnerships with universities, museums, research corporations and the like? Create a Conservancy for our schools? Continue to raid the public school treasury to finance Charter Schools?

Philadelphia, almost inadvertently, found a way to keep high earning professionals from escaping to the suburban public school systems. Maybe there's a glimpse there for us? "If nothing else, the 11-year-old Penn Alexander experiment has proven conclusively that, under the right conditions, middle and upper-middle class parents will quite happily send their kids to public school. Indeed, they are willing to pay a big premium in real estate to do so."

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