Schools continue struggle with law
Bangor Daily News, April 30, 2008
(excerpt) SAD 34 Superintendent of Schools Bruce Mailloux said the changes allowing merging schools to develop their own cost-sharing formulas were a step in the right direction. He added, however, that his district still was encountering difficulties as it attempts to consolidate with SAD 56 in neighboring Searsport. SAD 34 is composed of six communities, SAD 56 is made up of three.
"Right now we are working to come up with a way to try and make that cost sharing work, but at this point in time we really haven’t come up with anything that will work yet," Mailloux said Tuesday.
Mailloux said the consolidation planning committee had looked at combining a ratio of real estate evaluation, the number of students and community population to share equitably the cost of merging the two districts but was unable to find a way to make it work for all involved. The problem is, he said, that SAD 34 accounts for 75 percent in each category while SAD 56 represents 25 percent.
"It’s roughly the same split on all three criteria," Mailloux said. "It’s called distributed property mathematics, and the way it looks now is that there would be a significant shift in cost from SAD 56 to SAD 34 communities. People are not going to support that. It’s not going to fly.
(excerpt) SAD 34 Superintendent of Schools Bruce Mailloux said the changes allowing merging schools to develop their own cost-sharing formulas were a step in the right direction. He added, however, that his district still was encountering difficulties as it attempts to consolidate with SAD 56 in neighboring Searsport. SAD 34 is composed of six communities, SAD 56 is made up of three.
"Right now we are working to come up with a way to try and make that cost sharing work, but at this point in time we really haven’t come up with anything that will work yet," Mailloux said Tuesday.
Mailloux said the consolidation planning committee had looked at combining a ratio of real estate evaluation, the number of students and community population to share equitably the cost of merging the two districts but was unable to find a way to make it work for all involved. The problem is, he said, that SAD 34 accounts for 75 percent in each category while SAD 56 represents 25 percent.
"It’s roughly the same split on all three criteria," Mailloux said. "It’s called distributed property mathematics, and the way it looks now is that there would be a significant shift in cost from SAD 56 to SAD 34 communities. People are not going to support that. It’s not going to fly.
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