Henry Krausse

The question “Why so many school districts?” can be answered in one sentence from a story by a San Antonio Express-News education reporter, Krista Torralva, in the summer of 2020: “Today’s school district boundaries evolved from almost 50 years of segregated real estate development in San Antonio — the formal, legal kind common in U.S. cities in the early and mid-20th century.” But that’s only half the question. If the sheer number of school districts means some of them are really small — often…

To be ranked “the best” depends on what the ranking system measures. This is worth noting during the current season of “best schools” lists by number-crunching websites like Niche and the newsmagazine U.S. News and World Report, which have been heavily criticized for ranking colleges using elitist criteria and K-12 schools using performance metrics that simply reflect the relative wealth or poverty of the families they serve. Regular readers of the Express-News won’t find it surprising that publ…

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