Unless you want a minute regulation of schools nationwide, you will not approach a level playing field. Are all public schools in New York City or Denver compar

Unless you want a minute regulation of schools nationwide, you will not approach a level playing field. Are all public schools in New York City or Denver comparable? Clearly not. In Montgomery County, Maryland, parents raised quite a fuss when the system proposed to adjust the boundary between Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (prosperous area, good test scores) and Walter Johnson High School (slightly more prosperous area, slightly better test scores). The Washington Post once carried a table of the percentage grade required to get an A in algebra at the county high schools. At Albert Einstein--not in that bad an area--it was in the 70s. In schools to the west it would be 90 or nearly so.