Comments on: Allegheny County’s Future Depends on Municipal Consolidation

By: Kevin Creagh

Kevin Creagh — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:00:53 +0000

If tridents are involved, I’m all for it.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:30:06 +0000

This is what many people in the education field are afraid of: That people would see the Center/Monaca merger and use that as a case study. This should be the exception rather than the template. Please consider the very small size of these districts (compared to many other on the list), the similarities of the communities (which does not exist in the other examples), and the financial situations of these districts (Richer districts will not want to take on poorer ones. Research how Moon SD treats Cornell SD as kryptonite even though it makes a lot of sense for them to combine…or at least sense for Cornell.). It was a very, very heated process to combine them and this was on a very small scale. It will be all out war between neighborhoods if this was forced on other school districts. It would look like the newscaster fight scene from Anchorman…especially in that there were no winners and that everybody should lay low for a while afterwards.

By: Kevin Creagh

Kevin Creagh — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:23:34 +0000

While you are, I hope, half-joking…there is a recent example of Center Area and Monaca school districts merging to form Central Valley. Made a pretty strong football program, too.
Please get to work on designing a Quakerlope logo.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:56:28 +0000

Amazing ideas, but it will never happen because of…..high school football. Too many townships/boros/boroughs/hamlets/etcs. are linked to school districts that will never, ever give up their individuality because of high school football. Settling matters like combining police and utilities will be easy compared to making a “Quaker-lope/”