A Kentucky legislative committee is exploring what value there might be in breaking up Jefferson County Public Schools into smaller districts.

Today, a nonpartisan education commission created by Congress told the Kentucky committee that bringing smaller districts under one umbrella can reduce costs.

But breaking up a district means splitting up buildings and other resources.

The committee is made of Kentucky lawmakers and Jefferson County community members.

You talked about geographic models for separation.

What other models exist and how would they be equitable?

There seems to be no way when it comes to affluence or when it comes to racial equity that we would be able to make those.

So what what other kind of models exist besides geographic for splitting up districts of this size?

In the time we briefly looked at this topic and we're happy to provide more information, but most of the examples that we very quickly saw before were examples where a more wealthy area had decided to leave a larger area.

And so questions of equity socio economically were raised in those examples.

But when we look into it more, we're happy to provide more information and see if there are other examples that address that geographic concern.

JCT Students and parents will have the chance to speak at two upcoming meetings in Louisville.

The School District Governance Task Force will meet at Central High School on August 27th and Maile High School on September 10th.