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Direct linkGordon, Nora; Knight, Brian – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006
This paper examines the forces behind political integration through the lens of school district consolidations, which reduced the number of school districts in the United States from around 130,000 in 1930 to under 15,000 at present. Despite this large observed decline, many districts resisted consolidation before ultimately merging and others…
Descriptors: School Districts, Incentives, Rural Schools, Resistance to Change
