From Deseret News archives:
East-side district hits snag
Midvale says no to 4-city school proposal; mayor wants status quo
And the city, with feeder schools and low-income students, is an important piece to a recommended four-city district.
"Never I wouldn't do it in a million years," Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini said Wednesday. "Because I know how you run a school district. I did that for 36 years. You've got this cry that the east side doesn't want to build schools on the west side of the valley. They don't know what they're stepping into and how hard it is."
The former Jordan School District assistant superintendent said Midvale wants to stay put. The blue-collar city of 27,000 is currently a part of Jordan School District, the biggest district in the state.
On Tuesday, Mike Bennett of Bennett Educational Consultants Inc. presented results of an information-gathering study to the Cottonwood Heights City Council. The city hired Bennett for $9,500 to determine the best route for Cottonwood Heights to take if small school districts start forming around them.
The roughly 32,000 student district, if it were formed by the four cities, would have an estimated funding projection of nearly $217 million.
"Midvale shares boundaries. Sandy city shares several schools with Midvale and. . . if three cities went Sandy, Draper and Cottonwood Heights went then Midvale's feeder system would be disrupted," Bennett said. "Midvale is left with Hillcrest (High School), with half its population."
Cottonwood Heights officials pitched the four-city idea to Bennett, he said, because they did not want an elitist split by excluding Midvale. "They didn't want to leave out a city that has more than its share of poverty."
Keeping the integrity of those boundaries, Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore said, was the reason he wanted Midvale in on the study.
In addition, cutting Midvale out of the equation means the new district would lose about $3 million in federal funding. Three Midvale schools receive Title I funds. Those funds are allocated by the federal government to school districts with a high percentage of low-income students.
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