A story about the challenges in dissolving a school district in the Feb. 12, 2020, issue of Education Week incorrectly described the history of consolidation efforts in Wisconsin. In the 1940s and 1950s, the state merged some 5,000 districts, many of them tiny, into 500 within six years.
A version of this article appeared in the February 26, 2020 edition of Education Week as Correction