Why doesn’t District 202 split into two smaller districts?
The desire to have two smaller school districts instead of one large district is understandable. However, the detachment of District 202 into two separate school districts is fraught with numerous complexities and it provides no discernable benefits to the learning community. Two smaller school districts, which together encompass the same geographical area that is presently District 202, would not necessarily alleviate the growth for either district nor reduce the property tax burden. It has been suggested that District 202 detach itself from those areas with the greatest future enrollment growth. But that is very unlikely to occur, given the requirement that any detachment from District 202 would require a majority approval of the voters residing in both the detaching and the annexing school districts. From an economic standpoint, the expenses for each of the two school districts could actually end up being more expensive on a per student basis than a single district due to the duplic
