The requests for declaratory rulings, and even a court case that is now before the Supreme Court, could theoretically be related to any other financial program that provides extra funding. Even more specifically, the problems involved parts of the Code that give added funding to districts for either sharing or reorganizing. In none of the situations did the dispute affect the outcome to reorganize or share. Very few of the litigious cases involved reorganization. The Code is reasonably prescriptive about the process to be followed, and a substantial amount of common law was developed during the 1950s and 1960s.
Reorganization involves three distinct sets of actions.
The first is the development, circulation, and submission of the petition to reorganize. Those factors have not given rise to contention. The contents of the reorganization petitions are straightforward, and the attorneys working with consolidation are able to handle this with dispatch. The second area of activity revolves around the reorganization hearing and other steps taken by the area education agencies. The issue did go to an election as ordered, but it eventually failed at the ballot box.