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February 14, 2013 Politics » Politics Beat

Roads Not Taken

Harmony on city/county school consolidation? You can’t get there from here.

by Jackson Baker

In the same way that, proverbially, all roads once ran to Rome, all breaking-news issues seem these days to run to the intractably divisive matter of school consolidation. Projected budget shortfalls for the forthcoming Unified School District have dominated recent headlines in…

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