Continuing Consolidation Chaos…
The fun never stops in the State House. Apparently out of revenge for the veto of LD 1932, the Maine House last night passed a bill to repeal the consolidation […]
Read More →R.I.P., LD 1932
The long strange journey of LD 1932 came to an unceremonious end last night when the senate failed to override Governor Baldacci’s veto, effectively killing a bill first put forward […]
Read More →OPEGA to remain in place – for now…
The budget passed by majority vote in the legislature on Monday slashed staff and funding for OPEGA but left the agency intact and, more importantly, removed language in the original […]
Read More →Will OPEGA make it out alive?
As reported here, the Maine House did not adopt the amendment attached in the Senate yesterday that preserves OPEGA. In a vote earlier this afternoon, the House “adhered” to its […]
Read More →Southport to deny voters budget validation vote
We first blogged on this story about a month ago, when it was first reported here and here that the town of Southport had decided, against the advice of their […]
Read More →Education Committee looking to take school budget vote rights away from thousands of Mainers
With all the hubbub surrounding LD 1932, which was the first attempt by the legislature to amend the troubled school district reorganization law, very little attention was paid to today’s […]
Read More →In Augusta, Deja Vu all over again
It’s beginning to look a lot like last year in the halls of the Statehouse as legislators wrestle with various amendments to the controversial school district reorganization law. Observers of […]
Read More →New Bath-area RSU continues assault on school choice
Followers of school reorganization developments may remember that last fall we expressed a great deal of concern that school choice was lost for families in the four School Union 47 […]
Read More →“Super School Union” amendment to LD1932 advances in Senate
At long last, the state Senate took up LD 1932 last night, the first bill seeking to amend the controversial school district consolidation law passed last year. The majority report […]
Read More →Lincoln County News: School and Municipal leaders to break law, deny voters a School Budget Validation vote
While the legislature has been struggling to rework the school district reorganization law, towns and cities across Maine have been watching carefully to see if any changes will be made […]
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