Huckabee`s Education Proposal Under Study
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
An assistant attorney general says that
providing loopholes in education-reform laws for small schools to
avoid consolidation could prompt future lawsuits against the state.
The discussion came in a daylong meeting today between
legislators and staff representing Governor Huckabee`s office to
review the governor`s 362 (m) million dollar education-reform
proposal.
The committee plans to screen Huckabee`s proposal and other
education-reform proposals before an expected special session on
education. Much of today`s meeting focused on how to ensure new
education laws don`t put the state on the losing end of another
education lawsuit.
Huckabee supports consolidating high schools with fewer than 425
students that cannot meet academic standards efficiently, to save
money and cut bureaucracy.
Another proposal offered by Senator Paul Miller and
Representative Paul Weaver calls for districts to meet an academic
and economic efficiency standard or face sanctions, but includes no
minimum school size.
Legislators are under a January First state Supreme Court
deadline to find a plan to improve Arkansas` unconstitutional
public school system. Huckabee has set December eighth as the
tentative date for a special session.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
