The intent of the law was probably to phase out those school districts that were too small to ever be efficient. The larger districts just need to be better managed.The state law was written to exclude Pontiac and larger districts like Detroit. Suburban lawmakers aren't complete idiots. They know that "teaching" lessons to poor kids about adults making poor choices only makes sense when the adjoining districts aren't affluent middle and upper class communities.
I know the Saginaw area pretty well and say that Buena Vista should have merged with Saginaw city schools a long time ago. Buena Vista is a township to the east of Saginaw and some parts of it are as bad as the city of Saginaw, the rest of it east of Towerline is mainly a rural area. The population in 2010 was 8,676 for the entire township and it's a poorly ran township anyways.
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