I dunno, Doug.

That second proposal sounds like an incredibly naive unfunded state mandate. I don't see a corresponding proposal to increase the percentage of the state sales tax funding school construction--and the revenue stream provided thereby doesn't cover a fraction of the county's school debt service now. It's already thrust downward on the locals to a huge degree...

The first proposal, unless I'm missing something, sounds like a proposal for a School for Stupid Kids, a School for Poor Kids, etc., etc. The need to integrate our schools is real; it's just that I have favored integrating our communities first, rather than drawing contrived, elliptical school zones stretching fifteen miles and promoting the resulting zones as "communities."

They give better educational results, particularly among populations that need help - poor, ESL, minority.

They are slightly more expensive to build, but they are not more expensive to run (as long as we're talking about a size 700 or higher). Labor costs are the most important operating costs, and they go up proportionally to student population, no matter whether those students are in one building or several.

Liberty and justice for all.

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