Reply #14: That's a very common attitude. [View All]

[LWolf]

The way government funds the building of new schools is extremely dysfunctional. Funding won't be approved until the district is already overcrowded, and then there are several more years of growth before any newly built school is finished and opened. Districts deal with this by trying to pass local bonds to fund school construction. In the districts I've worked for, it can take several years of efforts, and several failed bonds, before one is finally passed, and then it only spits on the fire of school population growth. While I'd like to see the state fund a new school every time a district grows enough to fill one, no one is exactly beating down the doors in the capital, either.