Do-It-Yourself School District More Difficult Than It Appears
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › February 14, 2011
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For suburban Shelby County residents who are seriously considering starting their own municipal school district, allow me to suggest the perfect place to go for ideas and a few cautionary tales.
The place is Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania, a county I called home for seven years in the 1980s and '90s. About 1.2 million people live in the county, compared with roughly 920,000 in Shelby County.See the full content of this document
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Do-It-Yourself School District More Difficult Than It Appears
But while Shelby has just two public school districts, Allegheny County has - ready for this? - 43. That's right, 43, each with its own administration, board of directors and taxing authority.
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