State to reply by Friday

Kennebec Journal, September 12, 2007

(excerpt) Gendron said after the Aug. 31 deadline for school systems' letters of intent, her goal was to notify schools whether their plans pass muster with the state within 14 days.

David Connerty-Marin, spokesman for the Department of Education, said the department would have the responses to the school systems' letters of intent in the mail by the end of Friday.

And the state will respond to the schools all at once Friday, rather than inform them whether their plans were accepted, individually, over the course of the week.

Connerty-Marin said the main reason schools will be notified all at once is to allow the department to view the overall picture of school system consolidation statewide while making decisions on whether individual plans are in compliance.