re: What schools would ST. George affect?

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Just because BR proper is trending toward Detroit doesn't mean the surrounding area they're leeching from has to too.

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I don't think we have to save a village by burning it down.

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Baton Rouge has solid magnet schools, a growing downtown, a significant number of higher education and state jobs, increasing research activity, oil and gas jobs, more hospitality and convention infrastructure, relatively low taxes (for now), a good private school network, and a decent mayor/president (IMO). I don't think the fear mongering is really justified here. It's not turning into Detroit anytime soon.

The problem with this entire region is that these governments are often sales tax dependent. That's one of the reasons they bend over and let developers build whatever half-baked big box development they want. If nothing is done to keep the tax base in the parish, what's left of that retail activity after e-commerce kills some of it will move out to Ascension and Livingston.....and so will the people that want decent public schools.

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Elect better council members? What about a solution in the current decade?

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This is an indictment of the public schools in East Baton Rouge, not the council leadership....there's not much hope on the school board.

The incorporation effort is in response to two failed attempts to create a special school district without incorporating. It's plan C.