State renews push for consolidation
(Brunswick) Times Record, November 30, 2006
(excerpt) The Legislature is about to stir up the always heated debate over whether the state really needs 290 locally controlled school districts, 671 public schools and all those school administrators — one for every 11 teachers — to serve a shrinking school en-rollment.
Right now, there are a little more than 200,000 students in Maine's K-12 public school system. They cost taxpayers close to $2 billion a year to educate, and that enrollment is expected to shrink over the next 10 years to around 177,000.
Several pieces of legislation are being drafted for consideration in 2007 based on three independent studies, all of which came to the same conclusion: Maine's per-pupil costs, which are the eighth highest in the country, are not sustainable given the state's low per capita income.
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(Brunswick) Times Record, November 30, 2006
(excerpt) The Legislature is about to stir up the always heated debate over whether the state really needs 290 locally controlled school districts, 671 public schools and all those school administrators — one for every 11 teachers — to serve a shrinking school en-rollment.
Right now, there are a little more than 200,000 students in Maine's K-12 public school system. They cost taxpayers close to $2 billion a year to educate, and that enrollment is expected to shrink over the next 10 years to around 177,000.
Several pieces of legislation are being drafted for consideration in 2007 based on three independent studies, all of which came to the same conclusion: Maine's per-pupil costs, which are the eighth highest in the country, are not sustainable given the state's low per capita income.
Click on the article title to link to the full text!
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