[Mr.Kimball]

Harrodsburg for one.....They went out last year and consolidated into Mercer...overspending/budget issues are what I heard put them out.

The number of independent school districts in KY goes down each yr. I'm not saying Paintsville is in any danger of closing---but they have to closely watch the budget/finance issues. They don't have the same amount of money to play with that a county system would.

I cant say that I know all of the particulars of that merger,but wouldn't it be more correctly be described as the county system taking in the city independent system and accomodating the county's facilities to handle the influx of the city school's students, rather than an independent system expanding and doing the upgrading? Remember there was already a Mercer Co. school system before Harrodsburg shut their doors.