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Alamogordo Daily News - by Milan Simonich, Santa Fe Bureau - The high plains village of Mosquero in northeastern New Mexico has a school district with 43 students. A crowded classroom in Albuquerque has more kids. Roy has a school district, too. It has 51 students. Wagon Mound has 71 in its district, House 79 and Des Moines 97. Isolation, geography, a weak economy and tradition are reasons that places too small to appear on many state maps have school districts. All told, 49 of New Mexico's 89 school districts have fewer than 1,000 students. State Sen. Stephen Fischmann, D-Mesilla Park, has introduced a bill to close each of those small districts. His proposal, SB 80, is not as radical as it may sound, Fischmann said.
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Small school districts could be assimilated
From the Alamogordo Daily News - by Milan Simonich, Santa Fe Bureau - The high plains village of Mosquero in northeastern New Mexico has a school district with 43 students. A crowded classroom in Albuquerque has more kids. Roy has a school district, too. It has 51 students. Wagon Mound has 71 in its district, House 79 and Des Moines 97. Isolation, geography, a weak economy and tradition are reasons that places too small to appear on many state maps have school districts. All told, 49 of New Mexico's 89 school districts have fewer than 1,000 students. State Sen. Stephen Fischmann, D-Mesilla Park, has introduced a bill to close each of those small districts. His proposal, SB 80, is not as radical as it may sound, Fischmann said. Read more
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Perhaps a simple solution would be for the State Board of Education to stop "helping" our school districts and just issue block grants to them. Tatum is a small district that currently requires students to travel more than 100 miles round trip. A further consolidation of districts would require students to travel even farther. The help the Board of Education should do is simply provide a peer/capita return to each district and allow them to administer it rather than continuing their "help".
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