By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
When the Board of Regents voted unanimously to shrink eight colleges down to four, it pulled off a near miracle in public-policy terms.
Consolidation of some of the state’s 35 schools has been kicked around for decades with no result because of the political sensitivity. Just floating the idea in a legislative committee hearing in 2010 led to public denounciations and demonstrations.
Former Gordon interim president Shelley Nickel
When folks speak about budget savings, it should be remembered that those savings will probably not be in the form of a lower operating budget; rather, money saved from administrative salaries and other elements of the mergers will be redistributed into classroom programs, etc. So the savings exist as more efficient and effective use of funds, not necessarily less fund use.
Such makes ansering questions like the one the reporter presented to Chancellor Huckaby incredibly complex, and he is smart to refuse the urge to make simplistic promises or predictions.
They are said to be failing financially in many counties.
I think this is a boondoggle by the educators to give themslves
noteriority, when they succeed, which seems to be less and less.
It is my belief the Charter School story is something else to pass on to the taxpayers.