Last year we wrote a Brief that outlined some of the essential data points of what could have turned out to be the second voluntary merger of school districts in western Pennsylvania in the past decade and noted “…despite the challenges faced in a possible merger between the Moon School District and the Cornell District, both have expressed a willingness to talk about merging their districts…Whether or not these two school districts proceed past talking about a merger remains to be seen.”
There was some talking for a while, and even a presentation on a “potential merger discussion” at the Moon school board on Monday that contained a timetable that called for a joint resolution for the merger to be adopted by both boards by the end of this month, but based on comments in a news article today from the Superintendent of Cornell the whole thing is “a moot point”. The Cornell Superintendent and candidates running for school board in Moon seem expressed reasons they feel that the merger idea was put forward, with the former labeling the proposal as something other than “…a genuine offer”.
A merger without one of the “mergees” does not a merger make.
