R.I. Report Doubts Savings From Merging Districts
A plan to drastically reduce the number of school districts in Rhode Island appears doomed after a special commission issued preliminary recommendations saying that "regionalization" would not save as much money as originally hoped.
Gov. Bruce Sundlun last year proposed consolidating the number of school districts in the state from 37 to no more than 6. (See Education Week, May 22, 1991 .)
Late last month, the 18-member 21st Century Commission formed by the Governor to study regionalization and other ideas about the future of education in the state issued its preliminary findings. "The final estimates of potential savings (as opposed to the preliminary estimates) do not support wholesale movement to regionalization of the state education...
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