Arkansas Education Board gives initial OK on stripping its power to mandate school consolidation

August 8, 2024 at 7:18 p.m.

by Cynthia Howell

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Swings are idle outside the former Arkansas City Community Schools in Arkansas City in this May 2009 file photo. The school district had consolidated with the McGehee School District in 2004, and the former school for students in grades K-12 reopened as the C.B. King Memorial Adult Center. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette file photo)
Swings are idle outside the former Arkansas City Community Schools in Arkansas City in this May 2009 file photo. The school district had consolidated with the McGehee School District in 2004, and the former school for students in grades K-12 reopened as the C.B. King Memorial Adult Center. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette file photo)


The Arkansas Board of Education on Thursday gave preliminary approval to draft rules that leave the board without authority to mandate the merger of a school district that has fewer than 350 students to another district.

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