Under such a structure, all schools could cooperate in purchasing food, books, chalk and anything else they need in common, but each district would be administratively accountable to local residents.
"I have many times felt that we needed some single source funding," says Barbara Prescott, an 11-year veteran of the Board of Education for Memphis City Schools and immediate past chairman. "The counties are your primary funding source, with some supplemental funds coming from the city.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Policy Brief on Consolidating Districts in Philadelphia by Temple University: Many of the proponents of consolidation see it less as a vehicle for equalizing expenditures among higher-spending and lower-spending communities, and more as an opportunity to cut the costs of the current fragmented pattern.
Policy brief consolidating_school_districts
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
District size and effect on student achievement: “We found that large district size is detrimental to achievement in Washington 4th and 7th grades in that it strengthens the negative relationship between school poverty and student achievement.” Further, they state, “the negative relationship between school poverty and achievement is stronger in larger districts,” and “small schools appear to have the greatest equity effects.” In other words, when school poverty is high, children perform better in small districts, and the effect of school level poverty on achievement is smallest when both the district and school are small. @Washington School Research Center
Wsrc hlm district size final 10 2-02
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Friday, January 7, 2011
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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
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
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