Smaller Schools and Districts

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  • Large School Districts: What Does the Research Say?

    Large School Districts: What Does the Research Say?

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    Seth Cox

    A new page has been added with links to a lot of research demonstrating the detrimental effects of having large districts. Check it out…

  • Special Session

    Special Session

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    Seth Cox

    Governor Spencer Cox has called the legislature into a special session to address the possibility of competing ballot initiatives. A bill has been sponsored by Rep. Brammer and Sen. Grover that would remove the option for the school board to put the issue on the ballot. This would mean the only options to split the district would be via…

  • Former ASD Board Member Speaks About Split

    Former ASD Board Member Speaks About Split

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    Seth Cox

    Donna Barnes served on the Alpine School District Board for many years. Earlier this year, she spoke out in favor of a split for Alpine School District. Here are some of the key points she laid out: We heard the term “economies of scale” several times in the meeting. Essentially, the term means the more…

  • Administrative Costs per Pupil Compared to District Size in Utah 2013-2014

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    Seth Cox

    These most recent statistics compiled from the Utah Taxpayers Association “School Spending Report: Fiscal Year 2013-2014,” April 2015 verifies the conclusions of my previous study comparing administrative costs per student to size of district (with the possible change of the number from 1000 to 2000 in student population). This graph shows that while the smallest…

  • The Answer is Reduce School District Size

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    Seth Cox

    Mike Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency (EIA), gives more information about how reducing school district size can solve many of the problems in education. His first bullet point is as follows: One of the bits of information the EIA tables provide is whether a school district spent 65 percent or more on “instruction.”…

  • Larger School Districts Tend to Veer 'Off Task'

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    Seth Cox

    Vin Suprynowicz, assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, recently posted about the problems that large school districts are prone to have. Read more from the original article here: http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/suprynowicz030316.html “While espousing the virtues of small schools with a community atmosphere, our public school system has monstrously large school districts, mainly in poor…

  • Videos interviewing David Cox during the campaign to divide Utah's largest school district in 2007

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    Seth Cox

    The following 6 videos were made to highlight the history, reasoning, progress, and issues of dividing large school districts during the 2007 campaign to divide Utah’s largest school district at that time, Jordan S.D. #1 of 6 How I came to realize the principle of dividing as the solution. #2 of 6 The history of…

  • California 2011 study of their smaller school districts

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    Seth Cox

    California published a study on whether to consolidate its smaller school districts it did in 2011. It looked at costs and benefits. There were some interesting findings. They found among other things that medium-sized districts did better in student performance than the large or very small sized districts. While very small districts cost much more,…