Report: Money trumps learning
Bangor Daily News, January 4, 2008
(excerpt) Money is trumping educational concerns as communities continue to run into conflicts while grappling with school consolidation.
That was the finding of a new report from the Maine Children’s Alliance released Thursday. The white paper found that budget preoccupations were crowding out educational concerns in the state’s push to consolidate school districts. The Maine Children’s Alliance is a nonpartisan, statewide, multiissue child advocacy organization.
The white paper reviewed the process that produced the consolidation law in the state’s biennial budget, explains how the legislation took this particular form and how it has worked for the local school districts charged with implementing it.
"Consolidation is a worthy thing. It’s a goal that has to be reached in order to improve the quality of education and contain taxes," alliance president and chief executive officer Elinor Goldberg said Thursday. "There are huge benefits to making things more efficient."
(excerpt) Money is trumping educational concerns as communities continue to run into conflicts while grappling with school consolidation.
That was the finding of a new report from the Maine Children’s Alliance released Thursday. The white paper found that budget preoccupations were crowding out educational concerns in the state’s push to consolidate school districts. The Maine Children’s Alliance is a nonpartisan, statewide, multiissue child advocacy organization.
The white paper reviewed the process that produced the consolidation law in the state’s biennial budget, explains how the legislation took this particular form and how it has worked for the local school districts charged with implementing it.
"Consolidation is a worthy thing. It’s a goal that has to be reached in order to improve the quality of education and contain taxes," alliance president and chief executive officer Elinor Goldberg said Thursday. "There are huge benefits to making things more efficient."
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