Campaign to repeal school law lacks support
Portland Press Herald, January 17, 2007
(excerpt) With less than two weeks to go, the organizer of a campaign to repeal the state's school-district consolidation law does not yet have enough support to force a referendum on the issue.
"The numbers aren't all that encouraging at this minute," Lawrence "Skip" Greenlaw of Stonington said Wednesday. He has a Jan. 28 deadline to submit at least 55,087 voters' signatures to the state.
Greenlaw wants a statewide referendum Nov. 4 on the law passed last year, which is designed to shrink the number of school districts in Maine from 290 to about 80.
The law mandates mergers among small school districts by requiring that each district have at least 2,500 students, with some exceptions.
Greenlaw said he has 26,000 signatures and another 18,000 have been "promised" by petition circulators.
He said still more are likely to come in, but the 44,000 signatures that he has or is confident of getting leave him more than 11,000 shy of what's required by the Maine Constitution.
(excerpt) With less than two weeks to go, the organizer of a campaign to repeal the state's school-district consolidation law does not yet have enough support to force a referendum on the issue.
"The numbers aren't all that encouraging at this minute," Lawrence "Skip" Greenlaw of Stonington said Wednesday. He has a Jan. 28 deadline to submit at least 55,087 voters' signatures to the state.
Greenlaw wants a statewide referendum Nov. 4 on the law passed last year, which is designed to shrink the number of school districts in Maine from 290 to about 80.
The law mandates mergers among small school districts by requiring that each district have at least 2,500 students, with some exceptions.
Greenlaw said he has 26,000 signatures and another 18,000 have been "promised" by petition circulators.
He said still more are likely to come in, but the 44,000 signatures that he has or is confident of getting leave him more than 11,000 shy of what's required by the Maine Constitution.
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