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Article: Assets divided in split Jordan School District

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MIDVALE -- After 14 months of rancor and rhetoric, assets of the mammoth Jordan School District were split Wednesday based on geographic assets and student populations.

Arbitrators decided against forcing either half of the split district to pay the other but left $197 million in bonded debt in place. Taxpayers in the newly formed Canyons School District will pay 58 percent of that debt while taxpayers in the remaining Jordan School District, on the west side, will be responsible for 42 percent. The percentages were based on the tax base of the respective areas.

The school districts held separate press conferences Wednesday to respond to the decision.

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