Representative Homer Lenderman
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we call back in to a special session to address this, or how are we going to address this
to ask your opinion maybe about what you think the eighth circuit may do but if we wait until the eighth circuit rules how would we address this representative hammer appears to be trying to address this in anticipation of the eighth circuit ruling hat would we have to be
we are better off to do nothing until we hear from
Thank you. Representative Linderman. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think my question is probably for Scott. right
now we're under the gun waiting on the eighth circuit court is it your opinion that
et cetera, that there are a number of safeguards that are built in that a number of people, both on the local level and on the state level, have to meet these hurdles or show this level of need that would result in before consolidation would take place. is that correct well once they
had come out of the Oden and PACA study? Okay, one final question, Mr. Chair. Dr. Kimbrell, in your testimony, you indicated that there were a number of safeguards. If they fell below the number two years, the consolidation of the boards, the appeals process,
When the Lakeview was in progress, there was a – Governor Huckabee recommended a 1,500, and I believe the House passed the 500 number, and the Senate, I think, amended it down to 350. Is that correct? You'd probably need to get someone like Tony Wood, who was
and Arkansas went from 1,700 schools to 400-plus. Is that correct? You're reaching
Okay, Education Week magazine, if I'm not mistaken, actually gave Arkansas an A-minus rating on school funding. Is that correct? I believe that's correct, sir. I believe so. I was thinking I remembered that from some testimony in another deal. The number 350 actually goes back to the late 1940s, if memory serves me correct, that the legislature passed legislation that said all school districts that did not have 350 pupils would be consolidated,
we could very well be back into the Lakeview lawsuit, a lawsuit against our state for not providing adequate education. Is that correct? yes to that but
We need to comply with the law. If I understood your testimony, we are in compliance with the law, and
year after each consolidation. So Arkansas is in compliance with the law? Yes, sir. Okay. Scott, I think this question is for you. All right. If I understood you, if this bill passed, 1938 today,
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With your indulgence, I have several questions. I have received, as everyone on this committee has, a lot of messages that were copied and pasted. Some of them said that we need to support our children, and I spent 30 years in education. Both my children teach in small rural schools, and I certainly support education. But it says that we are currently in violation of ACA 613-1606 of 2005 and a 2003 Supreme Court order.
I do not have a list of those schools. But beginning in 2014, that would be an issue for them. There's no question. By the way, happy birthday. And there is no doubt that that would be a question and one of the factors that they do have to deal with. But, again, it is a small amount of money. If you do $19 a month, I believe we come out to just a little in excess of $200 a year per employee that takes the insurance as to the cost per district. Thank you very much.
seven schools that are characterized as being in physical distress.
distress? How are they going to meet this expense? Okay. As a testimony this morning, there are, I believe,
a companion bill that's being worked on that would put some money into the Employee Benefits Division, which would hopefully help curtail the increases in the future. So this bill that
is paying another, an additional $178 per month beginning this
this is that a teacher with a goal plan with their family and their spouse on the program
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