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Article: SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBERS DO ADD UP.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1999
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Byline: Rebecca Jones Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
How does a Colorado school district get its identifying number? I used to live in Greenwood Village, and it was Cherry Creek 5, Littleton 6, Jefferson County R-1. Now I'm in Garfield County and it's RE-1 and RE-2. What gives? - Jack Coates, Glenwood Springs
Explaining school finance formulas is easier than explaining how school districts get their legal names, but we'll try.
First, know that Colorado has 176 school districts today, down from 2,105 in 1935. Obviously, there's been a lot of combining and reorganizing in the past 60 years. Most of it came in the '40s and '50s, says Morris Danielson, a ...