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Bill to study consolidating school administrative units into county districts draws debate over costs, local control and data collection
Summary
A bill to create a study committee to compare New Hampshire's School Administrative Unit system with county‑level school districts was presented amid testimony that flagged potential cost savings, local control concerns and uneven administrative pay across districts.
Pete Martin presented Senate Bill 57 as a study measure to compare New Hampshire's current School Administrative Unit (SAU) framework with county‑level school districts used in many other states. Martin told the committee the aim is to assess whether consolidating administrative functions at the county level could reduce redundancy and lower costs.
"If we were to handle education at the county level, our schools would potentially benefit from a large cost savings arising from the economy of scale and eliminating redundancies," Martin said, adding he provided salary and per‑pupil data to illustrate wide…
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