From the ECS State Policy Database School/District Structure/Operations--District Size

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 School District Realignment and Consolidation Commission H.B. 1216 Establishes the School District Realignment and Consolidation Commission. Provides the purpose of the commission is to make recommendations to the governor and general assembly on the number of school districts in the state, the optimal amount of enrollment fo... More... SD Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 District Reorganization H.B. 1093 Revise the criteria used to exempt certain school districts from the requirement to reorganize. Section amended to read: After July 1, 2007, if the fall enrollment of any school district that is not sparse falls to 100 or below, the school district is to prepa... More... OR Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Services to Homeschooled Children and Funding for Small Districts H.B. 2040 Authorizes certain school districts to contract with qualified private alternative education programs to provide services to homeschooled children; directs the Board of Education to adopt formula for calculation of amount of funding to be received by programs ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 School District Size H.B. 22 Relates to public education; requires the State Board of Education to conduct a study and make a report on whether there should be an optimum size for school districts based on student population; provides a mechanism for the creation of a new school district;... More...