sentences:  According to the Stephens school district's attorney, Clay Fendley, there was, in the words of Mike McNeill of the "Magnolia Reporter", "bitterness" resulting from the McNeil consolidation.The Arkansas Board of Education (ABE) voted to dissolve the Stephens School District in 2014, and the portion serving McNeil was given to the Magnolia School District.Before the ABE made its final decision to break up the Stephens district, it was deciding whether to consolidate it entirely with the Nevada School District or divide it into three pieces.