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Article: Seeking bigger school districts: Senate proposal offers incentives to consolidate school districts.

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February 24, 2007
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Byline: Joshua Palmer

Feb. 24--TWIN FALLS -- In south-central Idaho you can drive less than 20 miles and pass through three different school districts. It's about a 10-minute drive between the Shoshone, Dietrich and Richfield school districts, which have fewer than 1,000 students all together. The communities they serve say their districts are a world apart, but geography says otherwise. Now a Senate bill is proposing to offer incentives to school districts that want to bring those worlds together by consolidating. Senate Bill 1067, which was approved by the Senate last week and is now in the hands of the House Education Committee, proposes to offer ...

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