AMERICAN FORK, Utah — Utah's largest school district, the Alpine School District, is considering the results of an out-of-state reconfiguration study.
In its meeting earlier this week, the Alpine School District board talked about the results of the study.
They hired a Florida-based consulting firm, MGT, which formally recommended a two-way split on Tuesday due to rapid population growth.
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Our content sharing partners at the Salt Lake Tribune report the firm spent weeks getting feedback on five proposed scenarios of dividing the district, plus a sixth option of keeping the district as-is.
Most people said they'd prefer that sixth option.
"I'm here because the study, the MGT study, is using the same data from fiscal year 2022-2023 that was used in the 2022 Orem study,” said one man who attended Tuesday’s meeting and then asked, “Why are we using two-year old data for a study?"
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The Tribune reports a vote on which option to put on ballots will likely happen next month.
The Utah County Commission would then need to approve it, and there would need to be a 45-day public comment period, before it could make it to the November ballot.
Past attempts to reconfigure the district have failed.
