Can you imagine trying to consolidate South San, Harlandale, Edgewood and SAISD together......talk about dysfunctional.

dpantle I think he was being sarcastic.

You must be kidding me toubat. I know for a fact LA and Chicago consolidated districts are a complete mess. They used to be customers of mine. Two of the worst performing districts in the country in terms of SAT scores, drop out rates, and cost per child to educate.

Consolidation of school districts is a great idea. The bigger, the better. After all, mega school districts have worked exceptionally well in Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles. Haven't they?

I'm not a big fan of ultra-large school districts. They tend to be too large of a political entity. I retired from the education field (assessment and evaluation) and can tell you that larger districts were easy targets to sell unwanted and unneeded programs and services. Their students underperformed smaller districts. Just look at Houston and Dallas, for example. Of course, big government types will always try to convince you that bigger is better.

Bexar county is the only school district that I know of that is broken down into so many pieces. All of Corpus Christi public schools are under one leadership. Of course, Corpus Christi is smaller than San Antonio but I don't think it would be that hard. Southside kids have the same right to learn and the northside kids do but they can't help that that area is basically low income and therefore no tax dollars for the district. AND I don't think it has anything to do with PreKforSA (I didn't vote for it). My husband has been saying this needs to be done for I don't know how long. He was raised in Florida and all their schools are consolidated also. It would save taxpayer dollars if they would trim the "fat" in the district. The assistants have assistants you know? No civilian business (not including SAWs and CPS) would have so many levels and still stay afloat.

Why do I have the feeling this has something to do with Pre-K for SA and the fact that nearly half the area school districts refused to participate.

How about one huge district. No cell phones, Ipods's, mandatory one hour of labor for a worthy cause for all students. Get them off their fat a$$e$ and teach them about hard work.

It's funny how representatives of the crappy school districts always think it's a good idea to consolidate. I have a great idea, when you consolidate, let SAISD or Edgewood administrations run the whole thing. Then Northside, Alamo Heights and Northeast areas can go in the toilet like the rest of 'em.

that way all the kids who get kicked out of judson can transfer to alamo heights. sounds fair to me why should the better and richer districts miss out on all the fun