Good morning...I find the last paragraph in the story you posted in your comment (#3) amazing. Who pays for all the new teachers and facilities, etc, needed, when a neighboring district gets inunadated? Locals? Is the budget of the failing district cut?
In 1985 a federal district judge took partial control over the troubled Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally segregated district with dilapidated facilities and students who performed poorly. In an effort to bring the district into compliance with his liberal interpretation of federal law, the judge ordered the state and district to spend nearly $2 billion over the next 12 years to build new schools, integrate classrooms, and bring student test scores up to national norms.
It didn’t work. When the judge, in March 1997, finally agreed to let the state stop making desegregation payments to the district after 1999, there was little to show for all the money spent. Although the students enjoyed perhaps the best school facilities in the country, the percentage of black students in the largely black district had continued to increase, black students’ achievement hadn’t improved at all, and the black-white achievement gap was unchanged.(1)
From
Money And School Performance:
Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298.html