re: Study finds carving up school districts worsens segregation. Case study Montgomery Co., AL

I don’t know or care much about Birmingham, but my reply was about leaving county districts. County districts outside of mostly rural, unincorporated, or spread out populations are the problem.

Though DallasISD does their best to push Charter schools to cover their declining ones Not sure people or companies move to city of Dallas because of schools they move because of the schools in surrounding areas including where part of city of Dallas is within PlanoISD or really directly to the specific surrounding areas even if it’s 20 miles away from Dallas.

A lot of growth happens far outside original stagnant cities. Districts north of Dallas in Collin county don’t directly match the cities’ boundaries, and I don’t know if there is a county district at all. When Plano got too big people shifted north to Frisco, McKinney, and Allen. During growth companies moved into Plano and instead of working in Dallas some started to work closer to home. Some working in Plano looked to Frisco to live, and Now some shifting further north to Prosper (ProsperISD actually crosses into part of city of Frisco). KatyISD’s growth is (or was) mostly in its unincorporated area that had a lot of people that worked in Houston before growth last couple of decades brought in more career jobs. It crosses county lines just like FriscoISD which also crosses city lines into Plano and McKinney. Katy also has had more growing pains because it’s not centered around a core of one also growing incorporated city (district has its own police force I think), but being allowed to be outside counties and cities has been better than being tied down to county or to city of Katy.

Not having to strictly follow city or county boundaries allowed for growth. Not constantly focusing on race allowed for growth. Making it hard to separate from county or original city and labeling these moves as racist or new segregation stifles it (as well as decades long desegregation cases), but that becomes better option than status quo in some areas that can’t better their kids’ education without forming a city and then a district matching city to break away from the county district. If that limits growth of main original metroplex than that’s on the people who refused to allow schools districts to adapt easily to population growth without constantly race baiting.