While most education experts believe Senator Stanislawski's 2019 trademark bill is Senate Bill 153, which will provide a windfall to charter school private management companies (10% of the charter schools' state aid) on the backs of our traditional public school students... others believe that his real focus is the consolidation of traditional public schools. Senate Bill 598 is this year's school consolidation bill. In a nutshell, SB 598 is an act relating to school consolidation which would require the SDE to publish certain list (those schools with 250 or less students) and require the State Board of Education to consolidate the administrative services of such schools.
Never mind that most research points to the fact that little or no money is saved when schools are administratively consolidated, Senator Stanislawski seems determined to consolidate small schools. Senator Stan points to the flawed white paper published by a UCO professor, which ascertains that $27 million could be saved by public schools if small schools are consolidated. Several states (including Arkansas) have already administratively consolidated small schools, and their administrative costs actually increased due to consolidation.
College professors usually don't publish "flawed" research, so the question must be asked "Why did Dr. Machell jump on Stanislawski's consolidation bandwagon?".
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