Lake View School District #25 was a school district headquartered in

Lake View, Arkansas Lake View is a city in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 443 at the 2010 census. Because there is also a Lakeview in Baxter County, many residents want to rename Lakeview to "Lake Helena". The original settlement name ...

. Its schools were Lake View Elementary School (K-6) and C. V. White High School (7-12). In 1992 the school district sued the state government, accusing it of unevenly funding school districts. As a result of that lawsuit and others, in November 2002 the

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decided that the state needed to increase the funding of public schools through new laws. Among the new laws written was one forcing school districts with under 350 students to consolidate into other school districts. In 2004, its final year of operation, the Lake View district had 136 students; the small size made the district eligible for forced consolidation. Until April 1, 2004, the district could have entered into a mutual agreement with another district, but it was unable to find a merger partner. The

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now had the power to force a consolidation. Clausey Myton, Henrietta Wilson Irma Morehouse, and Everlene R. Tucker, respectively the superintendent, school board president, and two board members of the Lake View district, wrote a letter criticizing the forced consolidation, accusing the state of attacking "institutions of color and

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", and stating "The district has not waged a 14-year fight for equal treatment under the law for the purpose of kowtowing to the newest manifestation of state discrimination." On July 1, 2004, the district was consolidated into the Barton-Lexa School District.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
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. Retrieved on May 23, 2018.

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Lake View School District No. 25 Phillips County, Arkansas General Purpose Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2001

Lake View School District No. 25 Phillips County, Arkansas Basic Financial Statements and Other Reports June 30, 2004

LAKE VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 25 OF Phillips County, et al. V. NO. 01-836 MIKE HUCKABEE, Governor of the State of Arkansas, et al.
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