Updated, 9:40 p.m. The Board of the Saginaw Intermediate School District has voted to dissolve Buena Vista Public Schools, and redraw nearby district boundaries to absorb its students. Students will be accepted by the Frankenmuth, Saginaw and Bridgeport-Spaulding districts.
Inkster Public Schools no longer exists - and Buena Vista School District will soon join its fate.
A state law aimed at swiftly addressing the two districts' financial problems required their immediate dissolution.
Wayne County RESA Superintendent Chris Wygant says he disagrees with the state legislature's decision to draft the law in such a way that it included Inkster. He says an emergency manager appointment would have sufficed.
"But now we're trying to shift our thinking from all that adult stuff into what's really best for these children."
Wygant's agency dissolved the Inkster district last week, and redrew the boundaries of surrounding districts in order to absorb its roughly 1700 students, who will attend either Westwood, Wayne-Westland, Romulus or Taylor school districts.
The Saginaw Intermediate School District will vote to eliminate the Buena Vista School District on Tuesday.
"Transportation is a major issue, as we try to equalize as best we can," says Saginaw ISD Superintendent Richard Syrek.
He says two of the biggest districts that will likely absorb many of Buena Vista's students are a long bus ride away.
