After debating for more than an hour, members of the Little Rock School Board decided how to deal with a disappearance of a steady stream of desegregation dollars.

Those dollars are leaving because the district's achieved unitary or desegregated status according to federal monitors.

With six 'yes' votes, members endorsed a plan to accept a $430 million dollar settlement offer that would maintain the magnet school program and minority to majority transfers.

That means the district will have to do without about $1.3 million dollars worth of funding in years two through eight of the deal.

One member wants the board to reinvent the budget instead of begin focused on cuts.

Baker Kurrus wants to see less administration and wants operations to be streamlined. 

One of his ideas is to get more operations housed in the same building so that supervision can be centralized.

He also proposed that the district can cut support staff by maybe a factor of 50 percent.