Given the Way Large School Districts and Large Schools Have

Multiple Choice

Given the way large school districts and large schools have been organized in the past, the trend toward larger school districts and larger schools conflicts, at least in principle, with which of the following other trends in education?

A) the increasing level of authority in school boards operating over the last decade
B) dramatic improvements in the funding of public education
C) the flight of public-school students out of the public schools and into private schools
D) the increasing urge on the part of educators to downsize schools and to make districts organizationally leaner