[Local-Maine-Schools] Map of 2500 student districts + draft legislation

[Ralph Chapman]

Thanks for the link to the April 4 draft legislation.  I have noticed
two aspects of the legislation that I had not noticed previously:
Each new school district must have at least one public high school;
and vocational school boards are disbanded along with individual town
school boards.  The significance of the first is that the managers of
contracts for private schools (that have survived on public funded
students) are the same people who will be managing an area public high
school.  Therefore, simple economic pressure will exist to not allow
as many students to go to the private high schools so as to fill the
public schools.  Although no student who does not now have a choice
will get a choice, the converse is not true: not all those who now
have a choice will continue to get the choice.  Therefore, the private
schools will either survive on non-public tuition paying private
students, or close.  The significance of the second is that without a
mechanism to encourage a cooperation amongst the sending schools for
students to take vocational school programs, the vocational schools
will likely be starved of students, also.

--Ralph Chapman

On 4/9/07, Brian Hubbell <sparkflashgap at gmail.com> wrote:

> And here (thanks to John Sharood from Kennebunk/Kennebunkport's SAD
> 71) is an April 4 draft of the Appropriations Subcommittee on
> Education's proposal:
> http://mdischools.net/20070404_AppropSubco_draft.pdf
> [WARNING: 3.2Mb, 44page, *.pdf]
>