SAD 68, Union 60 stuck on consolidation
Bangor Daily News, November 24, 2007
(excerpt) SAD 68 is among a handful of districts across the state that has found itself as the "doughnut hole" of school district regionalization.
School districts around SAD 68 have joined efforts elsewhere to comply with Maine’s school consolidation law, which requires school districts to form regional school units in order to reduce administrative costs.
SAD 41 (Milo area) and SAD 64 (Corinth area) are working together, and SAD 4 (Guilford area) and SAD 46 (Dexter area) are moving forward on plans to partner. That leaves SAD 68 (Dover-Foxcroft, Charleston, Monson and Sebec) smack in the middle of its neighbors with no one to partner with except Union 60 (Greenville, Beaver Cove, Kingsbury Plantation, Shirley and Willimantic), which is located a school district away.
Greenville, which had been working with Jackman and Bingham, now finds itself in a similar situation because of its isolation.
"That leaves us in the middle with nowhere to go," SAD 68 Superintendent John Dirnbauer said recently.
(excerpt) SAD 68 is among a handful of districts across the state that has found itself as the "doughnut hole" of school district regionalization.
School districts around SAD 68 have joined efforts elsewhere to comply with Maine’s school consolidation law, which requires school districts to form regional school units in order to reduce administrative costs.
SAD 41 (Milo area) and SAD 64 (Corinth area) are working together, and SAD 4 (Guilford area) and SAD 46 (Dexter area) are moving forward on plans to partner. That leaves SAD 68 (Dover-Foxcroft, Charleston, Monson and Sebec) smack in the middle of its neighbors with no one to partner with except Union 60 (Greenville, Beaver Cove, Kingsbury Plantation, Shirley and Willimantic), which is located a school district away.
Greenville, which had been working with Jackman and Bingham, now finds itself in a similar situation because of its isolation.
"That leaves us in the middle with nowhere to go," SAD 68 Superintendent John Dirnbauer said recently.
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