They are moving to satellite towns, not to the countryside. In our case, this means that people not are leaving to escape greater Baltimore as a geographical entity. They are leaving to escape the city-proper as a political entity. Crime and schools. Our concern here is schools.
More money is likely to be good money after bad.
And charter schools are too little too late. Then there is school choice. This represents the only possible way to anchor the middle and working classes to the city. For anchored they must be. Baltimore's population has plummeted, anywhere from 33,000 to 52,000 between 1990 and 1994, depending on the source.