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Contents 1 Canada 2 School districts and integration 3 School District Numbering/Classification 4 School District Infobox 5 British Empire 6 Limited to USA

[edit] Canada

I took out references to Canada. The content doesn't all apply to all Canadian provinces, in my view. For instance, in Alberta, a school operated by a Separate Catholic school district, would not be called a "public school" (even though the district and school share many attributes of a "public" school). Ultimately, it would be good to mention Canada, but only if its done more clearly. I don't see the point of specifically mentioning Canada, unless the article discusses Canada specifically. Other countries with school districts aren't mentioned by name, and there's no special reason to mention Canada. --rob 04:31, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Then this article should be moved to School Districts in the United States, otherwise it doesn't reflect wikipedia's global outlook. -- TheMightyQuill 15:02, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] School districts and integration

I've been told that in some places, school districts were set up separately from local governemnts in order to somehow circumvent integration laws, busing, etc. I don't see how such a loophole would be possible, but has anyone else heard this? While it is hearsay, I have heard it more than once (about different places), but no one was able to offer specific info. If it's true then it's worth mentioning in the article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:35, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] School District Numbering/Classification

In some states, school districts are numbered. For instance, "Greenwood Local Schools No. 259". Why is that? What does this mean? Some school districts are also "Consolidated", "Unified" or "Exempted Village" school districts. It seems like we should have, perhaps, a section for each state that discusses the state terminology. In some states, school districts are also county-based (Florida, Georgia, Maryland etc.), while others are based on townships/cities or are entirely autonomous of any governmental unit. There seems to be so much difference from one state or province to the next and it's all very confusing. But very interesting, too.

[edit] School District Infobox

Someone make one! There are at least a couple hundred pages that could use it. --Notmyhandle 07:22, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British Empire

The entire British Empire section is lifted from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Leducation70.htm, including the mysterious "Marylebone" in the middle of the final sentence. I think this needs to be rewritten to avoid plagiarism. 75.61.93.97 (talk) 15:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Its a government site that does not extend copyright to its website content--Mrg3105 (talk) 21:15, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Limited to USA

As the tags on the article suggest, this article seems to essentially cover school districts in the USA and only in the USA. Reading the discussions above, I wonder if the best approach would be, rather than to expand this article to a worldwide view, to simply retitle it to School district (United States) or something similar, and cover equivalents in other countries in other articles. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 04:08, 7 May 2008 (UTC)