Huckabee says 1 school district per county may be Arkansas' solution

Today on his monthly radio program, a caller suggested Arkansas, which has 75 counties, should have 75 school districts. "That would be probably a help," Huckabee said in the show on the Arkansas Radio Network. Arkansas currently has 251 school districts. A House panel in 2005 rejected legislation that would have studied creating one school district for each county. Huckabee said later today that reducing the number of school districts to 75 would be difficult to accomplish. "I think is somewhat unrealistic to expect that we'd get there. In some counties it wouldn't work," Huckabee said. "What people have to understand is that it's not one school in one county, it's one administrative unit. We'd keep all the schools." He said Arkansas should focus more attention on children, classrooms and teachers, not necessarily the administrations.