Lake View School District

Defunct school district in Arkansas, United States

Lake View School District #25 was a school district headquartered in Lake View, Arkansas. Its schools were Lake View Elementary School (K-6) and C. V. White High School (7-12).^[1]

In 1992 the school district sued the state government, accusing it of unevenly funding school districts.^[2] As a result of that lawsuit and others, in November 2002 the Arkansas Supreme Court decided that the state needed to increase the funding of public schools through new laws. Among the new laws written was one forcing school districts with under 350 students to consolidate into other school districts. In 2004, its final year of operation, the Lake View district had 136 students; the small size made the district eligible for forced consolidation. Until April 1, 2004, the district could have entered into a mutual agreement with another district, but it was unable to find a merger partner. The Arkansas Board of Education now had the power to force a consolidation. Clausey Myton, Henrietta Wilson Irma Morehouse, and Everlene R. Tucker, respectively the superintendent, school board president, and two board members of the Lake View district, wrote a letter criticizing the forced consolidation, accusing the state of attacking "institutions of color and persons of color", and stating "The district has not waged a 14-year fight for equal treatment under the law for the purpose of kowtowing to the newest manifestation of state discrimination."^[3] On July 1, 2004, the district was consolidated into the Barton-Lexa School District.^[4]

References

^ Home. Lake View School District. April 14, 2004. Retrieved on May 23, 2018. "14582 Highway 44 Helena, AR 72342"
^ Ritter, Gary. "School Reform and School Funding in Arkansas Spring 2006." Office for Educational Policy, University of Arkansas. May 2006. p. 14.
^ Albanese, Elizabeth (2004-04-05). "Arkansas School District Takes Stand Against Consolidation". Bond Buyer. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
^ "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on May 23, 2018.

External links

Lake View School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Lake View School District No. 25 Phillips County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001
Lake View School District No. 25 Phillips County, Arkansas Basic Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2004
LAKE VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 25 OF Phillips County, et al. V. NO. 01-836 MIKE HUCKABEE, Governor of the State of Arkansas, et al.

Defunct school districts in Arkansas since 1983

Most of the districts merged into other districts; dissolutions, in which the district was divided among other districts, are marked in italics.

1980s