WCSH News: Will “Town Academies” Survive School Consolidation?
An outstanding report was done by Don Carrigan of WCSH this past week on the likely impact that consolidation efforts will have on the town academies. Text below is from […]
Read More →BDN: Effort opposing consolidation moves forward
By Rich Hewitt Wednesday, September 05, 2007 – Bangor Daily News STONINGTON, Maine – With backing from 28 communities and more expected to join, a grass-roots effort to overturn the […]
Read More →BDN Op-ed: Best way to keep local school may be to close it
The Bangor Daily News was kind enough to publish an op-ed today on the school reform idea that is the subject of my new Maine View report “Saving our Small […]
Read More →Column in the Ellsworth American
Our friends at the Ellsworth American were gracious enough to print a column of mine on school consolidation: In Education, Bigger Is Not Always Better Written by Stephen Bowen Wednesday, […]
Read More →BDN: East Machias to battle state on school plan
Looks as though East Machias, which is one of the few towns to ever withdraw from an SAD, is pushing back against consolidation as well… By Diana Graettinger Thursday, August […]
Read More →Greenlaw: “The time has come” to repeal consolidation law
As reported this past week, former State Legislator and Deer Isle/Stonington school board member Skip Greenlaw has proposed a repeal of the new school consolidation law. His letter to the […]
Read More →SAD 61: “We will go it alone”
At least one school district has voted to tell the commissioner that they will not merge with surrounding districts. Can’t wait to see how this turns out. ‘We will go […]
Read More →PPH: School Choice ending in Portland
Seems competition is not working out for one of Portland’s high schools. Solution? Take away student choice. Portland newcomers won’t pick high school In order to even out enrollment, new […]
Read More →BDN consolidation news
Interesting pair of articles in the BDN today, one on how the districts are “falling into line” on reorganization, the other on at least one guy’s attempt to the repeal […]
Read More →California Teacher’s Unions support Charter School movement
NEW YORK TIMES By SAM DILLON Published: July 24, 2007 LOS ANGELES — Steve Barr, a major organizer of charter schools, has been waging what often seems like a guerrilla […]
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