Sentences with phrase «legacy city school system»

Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 - school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous schools.

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Two and a half years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa left his office steering the nation's second - largest city with a legacy of pushing the kind of changes in the school system that education reformers relish.
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