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Lawmakers consider study of consolidating school administrative units to seek efficiencies
Summary
Representative Rick Ladd introduced HB292 to create a commission to study consolidation of New Hampshire’s school administrative units (SAUs); testimony touched on potential shared services, local resistance, governance complexities and experiences in other states.
The House Education Policy Committee heard HB292, a sponsor-requested bill to establish a commission to study possible consolidation and shared services among New Hampshire’s 100+ school administrative units.
Representative Rick Ladd, who sponsored the measure, framed the proposal as a study rather than an immediate merger. He said the effort is intended to look for efficiencies — cooperative purchasing, shared transportation, combined special-education or IT services — without prescribing a single model statewide. “I’m not advocating that we have 1 per…
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