anderscj · @anderscj
13th May 2011 from Twittelator Pro
"In the countryside, the consolidation of school districts decimated the number of lay school trustees. Local school districts declined from 127,531 in 1932 to 16,960 in 1973. Between 1930 and 1980 the number of one-room schools nose-dived from 130,000 to less than 1,000." Tyack & Cuban