Merging School Districts Report to be Presented Monday

     On Monday night, authors of a study by the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs, will provide details of their research and recommend a three-district option as the best fit for Anderson County. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Anderson County Library. The public is invited.

      As first reported in The Anderson Observer, "Options for Multi-district Counties, The View From Anderson County, South Carolina," outlines in great detail the case for reorganizing the county's schools into three districts instead of the current five. The $58,000 study, commissioned by the Anderson County Board of Education, was commissioned in 2007 to discover "the best ways to equalize educational opportunities for the county's public school students."

      The report concludes that three school districts, instead of the current five, would provide "more nearly equal student population, assessed value per pupil, and growth potential in order to achieve a more uniform allocation of resources across the districts."

     More details on the report can be found in our original story here.