OXNARD : School District to Fund Merger Study
The board of the Oxnard Union High School District has agreed to finance an independent study to determine the financial benefits of merging administrations with seven elementary districts.
The board voted 4 to 0 late Wednesday to spend $5,000 to hire a consultant with School Services of California Inc. to conduct the unification study. Board member Janet Lindgren was absent.
Acting Supt. William G. Studt said the consultant would be hired immediately and that a report on unification is expected to take about five weeks to complete.
Studt said a merger of the eight school districts would create one large district with 43,000 students in grades kindergarten through 12th.
The proposal would merge Oxnard, Rio, Somis Union, Pleasant Valley, Hueneme, Ocean View and Mesa Union elementary districts with the high school district.
The board’s action was prompted by the Pleasant Valley and Oxnard elementary districts’ interest in annexing two high schools within their boundaries to create their own unified systems.
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