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No-Setting9690 t1_j7mqs0z wrote

I would agree, a person living in Reading, PA or Wyomissing, PA should have the same education options. They are literally 5 minute apart, and a world apart in education.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7nbpja wrote

Hershey and Steelton.

Mainheim/Hempfield Township and SDOL (one of the plaintiffs in this case).

Camp Hill and Harrisburg.

Lower Merion and Norristown/Philly/UpperDarby/fill in the blank

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[deleted] t1_j7nhirv wrote

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7nkcwm wrote

Hbg has 1 high school; CD has 2. Folks I know in that district think the 2 schools do not have the same resources.

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MaybeDressageQueen t1_j7q2250 wrote

The Auditor General came in a few years ago to clean house. People were fired, some had charges pursued against them, and in ‘22 the AG declared that the audit was finished.

So they got rid of a lot of the obvious crooks, but they didn’t do anything about the incompetence that is rampant in that district. Speaking as someone who contracts services to the district, it’s still a mess. They went from being barely concealed crooks to being obsessed with cost cutting and savings, but did nothing to address the actual educational, security, or behavioral problems that are running wild in the district.

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DRWDS t1_j7mv0rn wrote

Swarthmore and Chester...

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AgentDaxis t1_j7n3fgk wrote

Modern day segregation.

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[deleted] t1_j7n4t6s wrote

Just look at all of the school districts founded shortly after the Brown v Board ruling of 1954.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7nbroo wrote

All 501+ of them, right?

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[deleted] t1_j7nib7l wrote

Not sure I'm following. School districts in PA already existed before desegregation, and many/most localities ignored the 1881 state law banning segregation in schools. When 1954 rolled around we see school districts splintering, often along racial and economic lines and a ton of new school districts pop up.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7nmyg2 wrote

Schools and school districts existed in PA prior to 1954. Indeed, if memory serves, there were more than 1,000 districts at one point. Some towns had shared buildings but the "districts" as we know them today were reduced to the current number (more or less), but that did not occur until about 1960. The current DOE setup occurred around 1970. Some of today's districts have more than 1 high school. 3 have none.

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[deleted] t1_j7noo6u wrote

Oh yeah I was probably to broad in my statement. Education system of rural PA underwent a major overhaul during that era. I was referring more to centers of black Pennsylvanians and how desegregation caused school districts like York City which were already consolidated to be fractured.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j7nps6g wrote

How many school districts today in the city of York?

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[deleted] t1_j7nqzpq wrote

One main district and 3 that carved out the "desirable" sections. If I remember correctly two of them were established within 2 years of Brown.

One of them was almost completely within the city's district before it splintered.

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