2 school districts to shed state reins
Greenland, Decatur return to fiscal health after takeovers
Posted: January 20, 2010 at 5:25 a.m.
Roland Smith (center), the superintendent of the Greenland School District, and LeRoy Ortman, the superintendent of the Decatur School District, thank Hazel Burnett after the state Board of Education voted to remove both districts from state control. Burnett is the Arkansas Department of Education’s coordinator of fiscal-distress services.
The Greenland and Decatur school districts will be free of state control beginning in October, giving their local communities the power to run those school systems again.
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