The district where I live was created out of a court-mandated merger of 11 smaller districts. It was primarily to desegregate, but if you know the economic makeup of the districts involved, that played into it too. It's now one of the bigger districts in the county (graduating classes about 600).
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionst...landstory5.asp
The wikipedia page on it basically says "they can't read or cipher for shit, but they have cool musicals and lots of football players."
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