He was thinking in particular of one school bordering his district, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, that has earned the top ranking in media assessments of the nation's best schools.
The school bordered Daytona's dump.
Robins et al. (2005) found prior day exposures to both sulfur dioxide and PM10 were associated with lower respiratory symptoms among children at a school bordering a refinery in Durban, South Africa.
But the sound and the fury of old-school, border-style politics remain intact.
Schools bordering two linguistic regions honoured both.
Schwartz says her research suggests that a possible solution is to encourage economic integration across school-district borders: students in the Bronx, say, could be invited to attend New Rochelle's public schools and bring its low-income population up to 20 percent.
Flights into and out of the country were cancelled; fuel and food ran low; and schools, businesses, borders, markets and most health facilities were closed.
Well, in less than a decade, Long Island's school districts bordering New York City have experienced a growth of 7 to 14 percentage points in their nonwhite student populations as immigrants have arrived and minorities have moved in from the city.
Others warn that because the approach lets children choose their own projects, it leaves them bereft of basic academic skills, a disadvantage in New York's often cutthroat testing culture, in which the search for a place at a top-flight school can border on obsession.
We all want and deserve a working infrastructure, good schools, secure borders, safe air and water, reliable mass transit, fair and reasonable healthcare, and cleaner energy.
