Senate OKs school consolidation changes

Associated Press, April 18, 2008

(excerpt) Billed to happen at the start of this year's legislative session, a package of revisions to Maine's sweeping school system consolidation law has won final approval as the session draws toward an end.

The new measure is designed to preserve local cost-sharing agreements and allow for creation of smaller-than-standard units in special circumstances. It also would allow the state education commissioner to approve alternative organizational structures not written into the original law.