Editor's note: This story is part 1 of a series looking at the push to consolidate Indiana's units of government as they work to do more with less amid property tax reform.

MODOC, IN – It’s noon at the Union School Corporation , a district of just over 200 in-person students about a half hour southeast of Muncie.

High school students roam the hallways of the junior-senior high school wing on their way to lunch, past rows of blue and yellow lockers and colorful signs declaring “We Love Union.” On the elementary school side, fourth graders in a classroom shoot their hands in the air to answer multiplication exercises. Several thousand students also attend virtual school through the district.

For decades students have walked these same halls. Some of the teachers were once students thems

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