Jeff Butts, who recently was named Indiana Superintendent of the Year, shared another viewpoint about Unigov in an interview published by The Educator’s Room. The Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township Superintendent Dr. Indianapolis was not the only city in the country to merge with its surrounding county at that time - but it was the only one to explicitly leave schools out of the deal … The judge who ordered the (desegregation) busing, Samuel Dillin, stated bluntly that a merged city that left 11 separate school districts was racially motivated at a time when a majority of the region’s African-American and minority students lived in the city center while the surrounding school districts primarily enrolled white students. Chalkbeat Indiana highlighted one viewpoint in the article “ How racial bias helped turn Indianapolis into one city with 11 school districts.” There are two main viewpoints typically shared in Indy to explain why schools were excluded from the merger. To ensure the merger would pass, politicians allowed existing school districts to retain their autonomy and not consolidate into one school district for the city of Indianapolis. Unigov was a 1970 effort to consolidate resources and incorporate towns into the city of Indianapolis to help stabilize and grow the city. The 11 school districts were a result of Unigov. Within the boundaries of Indianapolis are 11 different school districts. When I meet people who don’t live in Indianapolis, where I was raised and attended school from K-12, they assume the only district in Indy is Indianapolis Public Schools.
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