... Education Department, which had been temporarily stalled by a lawmaker pushing for a change in the state's school consolidation law. Earlier Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee again rejected the proposal by Rep. Buddy Lovell of Marked ...

... temporarily stalled the state Education Department's budget after a Senate panel rejected proposed changes in the consolidation law. But Beebe said he wasn't worried about whether the budget would make it out of the Joint Budget Committee ...

... school system is unconstitutional. Fifty-seven of the state's 308 school districts were affected by the new consolidation law. They have until April 1 to come up with a plan and July 1 to implement it. In southeast Arkansas, 10 school districts ...

... black school districts were having problems finding partners among neighboring mostly white districts, he said. The consolidation law authorizes the state Board of Education to pair districts if they can't come to merger agreements. "If you are ...

... the hearts out of many small towns. Under the new consolidation law, the state Board of Education will pick partners ... and prompted the legal battle that led to the new consolidation law, had many of the same problems as Holly Grove ...

... would not abide by a new school consolidation law. "I don't know what would ... if the district ignored the consolidation law. "It depends on whether or ... districts were affected by the consolidation law, passed by the Legislature ...

... district that sued the state in 1992 over educational disparities, said Friday that it will not abide by a new school consolidation law. "This district has not waged a 14-year fight for equal treatment under the law for the purpose of kow-towing ...

... lobbyists of late has made it the deadline for deciding whether to file a federal lawsuit against the watered-down consolidation law approved in the special legislative session. Jimmy Cunningham, superintendent of schools in the tiny Plainview ...

... County district and the Mt. Judea and Deer districts to form the Deer-Mt. Judea district. Legislators passed a consolidation law this year after months of battling over the issue, which began in early 2003 when Gov. Mike Huckabee proposed consolidating ...

... the Lake View district sent a letter to state officials declaring it would not would not abide by the new school consolidation law. "Make no mistake about it. We either stand on the verge of Brown III or we stand on an horizon of hope," Jimmie ...