According to an article posted today on LJWorld.com, a bill has been drafted to do away with the board of regents and state board of education, and have a gubernatorally-appointed secretary of education, but the measure "isn't getting much traction."
This echoes a trend ECS has been seeing this legislative session in other states, of seeking to unify K-12 and postsecondary education oversight in a single agency or gubernatorial appointee. It will be interesting to see how these proposals play out during this session--whether legislators will be driven by a sense that the current system isn't working, or swayed by the dearth of research on the impact of education governance structures on cost savings or student outcomes.
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