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Committee debates plan to halve supervisory unions and cut school districts under proposed map
Summary
A committee member presented a draft map and framework that would reduce roughly 52 large supervisory units to fewer than 25 and cut about 119 school districts to under 60; members pressed for guardrails to protect local voice, bonding, and equity while JFO cost modeling is under way.
An unidentified committee member presented a draft map and a framework for statewide school reorganization that aims to halve the number of supervisory unions and reduce the total number of school districts.
The speaker said the goal is numerical and timeline‑driven: "We have 52 large units. The goal is to get that down below 25, and we have 119 districts, and the goal is to get that down below 60," according to the transcript. The proposal would set supervisory union lines first, give SUs two years to voluntarily consolidate and then allow districts within those SUs two additional years to merge; at the end of that period the state board could order involuntary mergers if…
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