[Local-Maine-Schools] Consequences of the alternate proposeddistrict sizes

[Paul Murphy]

I think you're analysis is right on Brian. The only thing I'd take issue
with is the number of students. 1700 includes tuition students at the high
school.. Taking them out of the equation leaves U98 at slightly fewer than
1500 students, still above the 1200 threshold.

Whether or not the Union structure will survive is a huge question.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hubbell" <sparkflashgap at gmail.com>
To: "Local Maine Schools List" <local-maine-schools at lists.svaha.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: [Local-Maine-Schools] Consequences of the alternate
proposeddistrict sizes


> Just to give some scale to the two figures for the proposed minimum
> size for new districts -- the 1200 number that the Education Committee
> proposes and the 2500 figure in Senator Mill's proposal which seems to
> attract many legislators -- here are some local numbers that apply to
> MDI:
>
> Union 98 schools, combined, have around 1700 students.  In all of
> Hancock County there are just over 7000 students.
>
> So while it's not clear that a Union structure will remain acceptable,
> a single district of MDI schools would survive the Education
> Committee's current proposal.
>
> Under Senator Mills' minimum size, it gets quite a bit more difficult
> to divide up Hancock County, which isn't quite large enough to handle
> three districts on its own.
>
> Starting from MDI and working inland, swallowing up Trenton and
> Lamoine would bring us only up to around 2000.
>
> >From there, we could merge with Ellsworth, which would bring us to
> 3200 and pretty well shut out the rest of the towns in the county by
> dividing them into two insufficient remainders.  Or else, we could
> continue east.
>
> Leaving Ellsworth aside, but incorporating the schools of Hancock,
> Sullivan, Sumner, and Winter Harbor/Gouldsboro would bring in another
> 1000.  That's more than we need to reach 2500, but it's hard to
> imagine splitting their union in half.
>
> So, it would seem that, in our case, there's a particularly
> significant difference between the two thresholds.  1200 keeps us
> operating within our existing Union while anything over 2000 might as
> well be 3000, as it brings us immediately into a district with half of
> Hancock County and merges us with another high school and several
> other central offices and teaching contracts.
>
> ....Just providing the facts, as I said, for scale....
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