Board Still Hopes Chickasaw/Satsuma Won't Break Away

Chickasaw turned down Mobile School Board offers.

By: Bill Riales | WKRG
Published: September 19, 2011

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MOBILE, AL --

Mobile School superintendent Dr. Roy Nichols says he is looking forward to meeting with representatives of Chickasaw and Satsuma in hopes of persuading them not to break away from the state's largest school system.

Chickasaw says it will turn down offers of concessions from the school board that included renovating Peter Hamilton Elementary among others. City Councilman Adam Bourne has said he believe MCPSS doesn't want to two cities to form their own system because it would lose tax revenue.

But Dr. Nichols says the system actually spends more on education in the two cities than MCPSS takes in.

MCPSS is still waiting on an opinion from the attorney general to determine if it is legal for the two cities to break away.