One-room schools to merge districts amid declining rural enrollment

Lincoln Union Elementary will merge its school district with Laguna Elementary this summer, protecting both historic one-room schoolhouses from demise. “If we don’t join forces, then this way of educating young people out in this community will go away,” Luke McCann, the superintendent of both school districts, said at a hearing last week with the Marin County Committee on School District Organization. The Hicks Valley school, built in 1872, is the oldest continuously operating one-room…