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That is not true when your looking at IT infrastructure, connecting to the state K-12 network, qualifying for connectivity grants, etc.

The cost to do this for an individual school is much greater than spreading these primarily fixed over many schools.

I am not sure what a “state k-12 network” is. I don’t think such a thing exists in NJ.

I have looked at our budgets, IT is almost a rounding error out of the $25 million/year.

Most of the “synergy” of combining schools is supposed to come out of reduced administrative personnel.

Except that never happen. Quite the opposite - administration swells and the combined regional district ends up costing more.