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Washington Post - [A] rising number of Washington area students . . . have switched out of private schools this year as financial pressures and the availability of good public schools have made the option irresistible to some. In Montgomery County, the only jurisdiction in the area that tracks movement between private and public schools, the net number of students who jumped from private to public schools rose to 727 in the 2008-09 school year, according to preliminary figures. That is more than double the number in 2006-07 and the largest total since the county began tracking the numbers in 1988. Other public schools across the region reported a rise in the number of families transferring in.