Originally Posted By: Dustin
Originally Posted By: toothdoc
Better schools mean better home values. Even the old people benefit from better schools.


I'm all for better schools but I still don't understand why there is a need for 167 schools districts when you could make do with one for each county. Even if you went with one for each county and say one for each city over 50k population you still are funding only about 75 districts.

There is probably a $10MIL+ savings in cutting down the staffing of all those districts.


Some counties may work fine with one school system. We tried that in Mobile County and it didn't work very well. Too big, too inefficient. The north Mobile schools were under the same school board member that Prichard was under, so guess where the majority of the money went? The three cities' schools that broke away from Mobile County are doing much better than they were before.