Authors recommend that policymakers closely examine claims of the benefits of consolidation for their state; avoid statewide mandates for consolidation and minimum sizes for schools and districts; consider alternatives to improve fiscal efficiency or educational quality; and investigate de-consolidation as a means of improving fiscal efficiency and learning outcomes. (smallschoolscoalition.com)
Rushing forward with statewide mandates to incorporate value - added assessments into teacher evaluation systems, for example, may wind up stifling innovation. (educationnext.org)
A long - term solution is needed instead, and it shouldn't be a single statewide mandate applied uniformly across all 115 local education authorities. (wakeed.org)