AUGUSTA: Schools could partner with Georgetown

Kennebec Journal, February 28, 2008

(excerpt) The school superintendent's office here may contract to provide some services to the tiny school system in the coastal community of Georgetown, maybe even sharing the superintendent herself.

The idea of a contract for Augusta to provide services, for a fee, to Georgetown could unite two school systems unable to find consolidation partners in the ongoing state school reorganization effort.

While it would not be a consolidation, it could centralize some services, such as payroll, in Augusta. And it could give Georgetown more options as it prepares for the impending July 1 termination of its current School Union 47.