SAD 4 panel to vote on funding formula
Bangor Daily News, August 29, 2006

Here's a short excerpt:

A SAD 4 committee could vote this week whether to send to referendum a change in the school-funding formula requested by Abbot residents.

The committee was organized after a petition signed by 300 people - mostly Abbot residents - asked that the district begin a process to amend the local education cost-sharing formula.

Abbot residents think they are shouldering about double the per-pupil cost of other communities of similar size and want the local additional funds assessed solely on per-pupil costs without factoring in municipal valuations.

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