Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Blast from the Past!
Feb. 10 2005
Herenton outlined a program for educational consolidation that envisioned five coequal and commonly funded school districts throughout Shelby County, each with a de facto regional autonomy, though a chancellor and a nine-member Board of Education would provide an umbrella administration.
The plan would ease the burden of city and county taxpayers ad promote efficiency without any radical alteration of current attendance patterns, said Herenton, who offered his plan as the alternative to a “state of denial” on the part of some local government and education officials.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Studying county school district formation inevitably involves reviewing research on school consolidation in general. The reasons most often cited for promoting school consolidation are:
Countyschooldistricts
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
See what the state attorney general said in 2003 about consolidation and special schools! If legislation passed that allowed Shelby County Schools to become a special school district and the Memphis City Schools voted to give up their special charter, would this action force consolidation on Shelby County Schools?
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Interactive Map of Shelby County Demographics
Official Referendum Notification and MCS Charter
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