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.