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In that year, which was some 40 years after the spanishlessonplans start of a massive effort by reformers spanishlessonplans to consolidate districts into larger administrative units, there were about 120,000 individual school districts in the U.S. This meant that on average there were only two schools per district. Now, that is really local control. Even now, after consolidation spanishlessonplans has continued for another 60 years, we still have about 15,000 spanishlessonplans separate school districts -- each with primary control over financing, staffing, and setting curriculum standards for our schoolsCertainly state governments spanishlessonplans have taken steps over the years to assert greater control over these matters in K-12 schooling, and even the federal government has made tiny and tentative moves in this direction. spanishlessonplans But all these efforts have been undertaken in the face of enormous resistance by local communities, which have vigorously fought to preserve the autonomy of their schools.

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