Iron River Grade School District 1 v. Bayfield County School Committee

This case is another round in the battle for school-district reorganization that commenced in earnest in 1947. The battle that was commenced then has been substantially completed. In 1937 there were 7,777 school districts in the state; by the end of 1965 there were 541. In 1948 over 4,000 school districts were operating one room-one teacher graded schools; there are now less than 100.

This truly herculean reorganization was initiated by the exhaustive report and recommendations of the commission on improvement of the educational system, under the chairmanship of Senator Foster B. Porter, and…