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Consolidation snake oil called to task

Peter Carlberg
Published: March 21, 2011
That One Kent Coalition has been privately plotting a “consolidation” of local governments for the last 18 months smells pretty fishy, and oddly coincidental with The Grand Rapids Press’ fishy claims that consolidating all our local school districts into county-wide school systems would save Michigan taxpayers $612 million a year. Modern researchers have focused more on the dis-economies of scale inherent in large organizations.

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