Finance & Taxes <> Student Opportunities <> Student Achievement

The Canajoharie & Fort Plain Feasibility Study Final Report (linked here) makes many grand claims about the potential benefits of the proposed school merger. But what do research and actual regional evidence say about those claims? It is all covered here.

Finance & Taxes

The Merger Feasibility Study suggests that cost savings are one of the primary advantages that could result from a school merger. The actual experience from past regional mergers tells a different story; and that experience is backed up by plenty of published educational research. The merger truth: school mergers almost never result in lower taxes. See the evidence below.

• Does the Merger Feasibility Study provide accurate predictions? (2/16/2026)
• Research Results on Finance & Taxes

Student Opportunities

Everyone wants the best opportunities for our students, and the districts’ merger study claims that a merger will provide those opportunities. Unfortunately, experience and research say different. The merger truth: the promised opportunities rarely show up. The evidence is here.

• More to come!
• Research Results on Student Opportunities
  

Student Achievement

The merger study can’t promise improved student achievement. But it strongly suggests it may happen. But once again, the suggested advantages fail to show up in actual experience or in educational research. See the merger truth below.

• More to come!
• Research Results on Student Achievement