There is 3 other districts that are closing early in Michigan.  Also a couple of them are loosing their high schools next year and will have to go to a private charter high school because the state won't under write these schools with enough state funds to keep them open.  In Florida there are counties that don't have enough property to raise enough taxes for schools so property taxes are shared from wealthy districts to help under write them.  Most of these poor counties are in the red end of the state.  Michigan wants to privatize all the poor districts and working quickly to do this.  What the ideologs don't understand is you short change the future of the country by not underwriting public education.  California used to have very inexpensive colleges for a long time and any one with talent and creative imagination could go and California ended up with Silicon Valley. At one time the City of Akron paid for Akron College and it was very inexpensive for people who lived inside Akron City limits.  That lead to the development of plastics in the depression and lots of jobs for the area in plastic manufacturing later and of coarse synthetic rubber during WWII.  That town bent over backwards to keep their public schools high quality during the depression.  In 1900 Argentina and the USA had the same GNP but Argentina did not have mandatory public education. They had lots of natural resources but we over took them after WWI.  They simply didn't have an educated work force even though England invested heavily in the country.  A society is always moving forward when the people are well educated.  I just wonder how much of the infrastructor the GOP has to trash before people get fed up with them.