Budgets are constrained, population demographics are changing and competition is increasing. In turn, property taxes are rising , neighborhood schools are closing and families are choosing alternative educational pathways. Local school districts are feeling this squeeze as they scramble to balance the books, maintain their student population and keep taxpayers happy. Do the pressures of today make local school districts more difficult to manage? If so, should we be concerned about large districts?

Local Education Agencies (LEAs) that manage school districts play an important administrative role in connecting federal and state law, policy and curriculum standards to our neighborhood schools and allocating money across programs. These school districts consist of administrative staff who m

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