Vote in Farmers Branch, Texas, will gauge interest in creating new school district

From The Dallas Morning News: The Farmers Branch, Texas, City Council has voted to place a nonbinding referendum on the May ballot on whether the city should form its own independent school district. A move to form an independent school district would still face other hurdles, including a requirement that there be 8,000 school-age children in a district. Most Farmers Branch residents send their children to the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District or private schools.

EARLIER...from The Dallas Morning News: The mayor of Farmers Branch, Texas, is talking about extracting city students from the Carrollton-Farmers Branch and Dallas districts and creating a new school system. The city's exploration of creating its own school district comes amid clashes between city leaders and Carrollton-Farmers Branch, the district that enrolls most of the city's public school students.