School Mergers
Govenor Rendell has proposed consolidating our number of schools from 501 to around 100. While it is clear PA has too many schools, studies have shown that if you create too many "big schools" those with enrollments over 3,000 students that you actually don't save any money.
What is needed is a detailed review at what District's can geographically be put together and can if possible co-exist with the very different tax structures that usually exist from one School District to the next.
Probably a more realistic number is closer to 300 schools.
What is needed is a detailed review at what District's can geographically be put together and can if possible co-exist with the very different tax structures that usually exist from one School District to the next.
Probably a more realistic number is closer to 300 schools.
Labels: Merger, school districts
posted by Paul Sroka at
10:04 AM
1 Comments:
I have a story in today's paper looking at the research of whether merging district's saves money. It's interesting to see what's happened in other states when they were promised money would be saved and individual schools wouldn't close. The story is at http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/Story/02-17-Consolidation-pros-and-cons
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