Schulbezirke sind in einigen Bundesstaaten dasselbe wie Landkreise, während sie in anderen nichts miteinander zu tun haben
Von geobica
Schulbezirke sind in einigen Bundesstaaten dasselbe wie Landkreise, während sie in anderen nichts miteinander zu tun haben
Von geobica
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Just a little appreciation for that genius legend
Cool! Don’t know what to do with this info but it is very interesting and well visualized!
Fantastic map
Wow. Surely Hawaii has some kind of smaller units to manage their schools?
I’ve only ever lived in Florida and I had no idea that having a 1:1 for district and county was the outlier in the US. Looks like only Florida, Maryland, West Virginia and Nevada have that 1:1
PA resident in yellow. School districts are another layer of government here. They levy and collect their own property taxes (called school taxes) just like the township taxes your home (yes, there are effectively two property taxes). You pay taxes to five levels of government here: federal, state, county, school district, and township.
Feel like the green-red color scales always implies that one is good and one is bad
Oklahoma be WILD. I’d love to know the enrollment sizes of some of those districts where there are like 6 in a county – do they really need to be all independent??
IIRC there are some places in Arizona and California that have separate districts for elementary and high schools.
amazing map OP!
We have 43 school districts and 130 municipalities in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh PA and suburbs.)
Its a lot.
Weird how it’s basically the south + Utah and Nevada. Why does the Mason Dixon line matter here?
One district per county sounds so alien, like a bureaucratic boondoggle for the sake of it.
The school district for my home address is a different city. I’m about 4 miles from the city limits.
It’s a weird combination. I live in City B. There’s a City B&C School District. I’m in City A School District.
What is “district for a county and part”?
Each town in Massachusetts has a school committee that runs its schools by default, though they can federate into superintendent unions and regional districts. In many places, elementary schools are run by a completely different body than middle and high-schools and are in completely different districts!
1/2 of them in NJ
This is super interesting and very well done wow
The Virginia map is wrong.
Think we have 40 some independent school districts here in westchester county NY (population about 1 million)
Man the mason dixon is so prevalent here.
Very surprised by Connecticut. I would’ve expected more red here with the amount of regional school districts we have
Are we sure we can’t make districts even smaller New Jersey?
Florida, Maryland, West Virginia, and Nevada are all green
CA has over 1000 public school districts, approximately 1060.
There’s no reason for duplication of services. My mother grew up in a rural town in the Jackson Purchase (western KY) that never had segregated elementary or middle schools. They were certainly racist, but also a combination of poor and cheap enough to just not afford another two buildings just for the 300 total black students who lived there.
So Hawaii has one school district statewide? Is that what I’m supposed to understand? That’s cool.
gem map
And what? You want to start arguments? Be decent
Washington has exactly one county that doesn’t share any school districts with a neighboring county.
>!San Juan County, which consists entirely of islands that are not accessible by bridge!<
Doesn’t the Hanover High district (NH/VT) cross state lines? Or is it separate districts sharing a school?
Mississippi is rife with counties that have one big “city” and two districts: a district for the one city and district for everyone else. Almost invariably the county districts are poor and offer limited opportunities for their students, sometimes with just a single large k-12 school. But their property taxes are low and they have freedumb.
The city district is usually much better, though I won’t always say “good” because the city levies an appropriate property tax to fund it.
As a non American, can anyone explain what is a school district, and why do they exist? Where I’m from, you can enroll in any school you like, though most people choose one that is close by.