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Byline: Dena Pauling
Sep. 11--PHILIPSBURG -- The Philipsburg-Osceola Area School District's financial crisis was not the fault of one person.
Nor was it because the district spent too much money building athletic fields.
It was overstaffing, building too much space, a declining a tax base, using reserves to pay for operating costs and a taxing error: A collision of forces building over several years that created the perfect fiscal storm.
Some forces were within the district's control. Others were not.
Those findings are part of a recently completed state management study that also tells the school board what it should do to return…