Pennsylvania plan for merging districts has difficult path

March 23, 2009
Gov. Rendell wants to reorganize state's education system

Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell has called for a major reorganization of the state's school bureaucracy, in part to ease the reliance on property taxes. The plan calls for 80 percent of the state's school districts to disappear. Small districts would become parts of bigger ones, and hundreds of administrative jobs would evaporate. But based on the early response--and the long, tormented history of school district mergers--the road to school consolidation in Pennsylvania is likely to be a torturous one that could take years to navigate.
Read The Philadelphia Inquirer article
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EARLIER: Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell has called for a major reorganization of the state's school bureaucracy, in part to ease the reliance on property taxes. The plan calls for 80 percent of the state's school districts to disappear. Small districts would become parts of bigger ones, and hundreds of administrative jobs would evaporate. But based on the early response--and the long, tormented history of school district mergers--the road to school consolidation in Pennsylvania is likely to be a torturous one that could take years to navigate.
ReadThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.

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