 Cutbacks continued in 1969 and 1970
as the percentage of state participation in financing
the South-Western City Schools continued to decline.Voters turned down requests for approval of additional
operating levies – even though the school tax rates in
the South-Western City School District have always
been very low in comparison with other districts in
Franklin County.A crowning achievement of the district was the
opening, during the 1970-1971 school year, of two
new high schools