by INFORUM
Forum editorial: Prepare for change in Fargo schools
November 30, 2010 at 6:00 pm in INFORUM
A few years ago, a Fargo School Board election turned on the desire of school district voters to preserve neighborhood elementary schools. Continue Reading
Maybe Fargo would consider changing it’s policy of giving tax breaks to new homes built in places that schools are overcapacity and that require building new infrastructure and that are mostly in the flood plain anyway. Why give a tax break to someone to build and then require taxpayers to fund a new school or addition, it doesn’t make sense. You could continue tax breaks in areas of underutilized schools.
If giving tax breaks to control people’s behavior, wouldn’t you think it would make the most sense to get them to move or build in areas where infrastructure, like schools, is underutilized?
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Don’t you suppose that the program discribed will just encourage young families to live in South Fargo, where there are still neighborhood schools?? Generally, families with young children always look at the local school situation when picking a place to live.
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I would at least hope that this time the School Board will work cooperatively with the City of Fargo and its planning efforts. As the City tries to strengthen the core (renaissance zone, neighborhood revitalization efforts, etc.) those efforts would be absolutely trashed if the school district closes schools in certain neighborhoods. Repurposing might be better–STEM programs in a magnet school at Washington perhaps? The City Planning department gets blamed if slums develop, but when you look at the not-so-desirable areas of the city (thinking of the Emerson Smith area), those slum-ish areas are probably a direct result of School Board action, not the City’s.
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