Our diocese is going to be the first in Michigan to have its own school district. Not the whole diocese, because it is huge, but a district nonetheless. All Catholic schools in Lansing and several more from surrounding communities will be in the district. Everything, financially, will be standardized, from teacher salaries and benefits, tuition, and everything else that comes with a price tag--books, computers, internet access, the whole nine yards. You save when you buy in bulk; you save more when you buy in bigger bulk. We'll know in a few years if it's true. Tuition will go up at some schools and decrease at others this coming fall.
You wrote:
“Our diocese is going to be the first in Michigan to have its own school district.”
If you mean “consolidation”, I’m afraid that only delays the end of the school. That is, unless, they institute a funding program similar to that of Wichita, Kansas. But that kind of plan takes guts and must bishops don’t have guts these days.