The People's Map with School District Overlay
I wanted to submit a quick observation after reviewing the people's map submission and the subsequent upload on the Dave's Redistricting website that further details school district boundaries for further observation. After reviewing the maps I believe that small iterations could be made to the maps along some of the outer most edges to fully incorporate school districts within a particular state legislative district. For instance, I live in SEPA and I have observed that Twin Valley School District falls in both Berks and Chester County, and those two districts would be split using the current map. The same thing could be said about Spring-Ford, Wester Chester, Kennett, and Perkiomen Valley to name a few. When you split up school districts, those students can be disproportionally discriminated against in terms of funding advocacy and representation by the General Assembly. I urge the LRC to study the boundaries proposed in the peoples map with school district overlays and keep this as a deciding factor when determining how to draw a districts outer lines.