Editorial: Districts must forge new partnerships - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial Sacramento Bee:
"In 2002, the Legislature's updated Master Plan for Education called upon the state to take steps to bring all school districts into unified K-12 structures. The separate elementary and high school districts, it said, 'perpetuate isolated approaches to education delivery.'
A prime example is the multiple districts in Sacramento's north area. Between 1949 and 1972, unification proposals for these fragmented districts went to voters six times and were defeated � the casualty of conflict, distrust and mismanagement.
Voters in the Natomas elementary district finally became so frustrated with the Grant high school district, where they sent kids to middle and high school, that they created a breakaway K-12 district in 1991."
"In 2002, the Legislature's updated Master Plan for Education called upon the state to take steps to bring all school districts into unified K-12 structures. The separate elementary and high school districts, it said, 'perpetuate isolated approaches to education delivery.'
A prime example is the multiple districts in Sacramento's north area. Between 1949 and 1972, unification proposals for these fragmented districts went to voters six times and were defeated � the casualty of conflict, distrust and mismanagement.
Voters in the Natomas elementary district finally became so frustrated with the Grant high school district, where they sent kids to middle and high school, that they created a breakaway K-12 district in 1991."