267 School Districts Pass in Assigned Consolidation Plans ; the Letters of Intent in Many Cases Express More Than One Possibility.
Portland Press Herald › September 02, 2007
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A deadline for school districts to submit consolidation plans to the state came and went Friday with some districts saying they had not yet decided what to do.
The letters of intent that local districts had to file with the Department of Education stem from a cost-cutting plan the Legislature approved earlier this year to trim the number of school districts from 290 to about 80.See the full content of this document
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267 School Districts Pass in Assigned Consolidation Plans ; the Letters of Intent in Many Cases Express More Than One Possibility.
By the end of the day Friday, 267 districts had submitted one or more letters, according to a department spokesman. A complete list will be released Tuesday.
Under state law, districts with fewer than 2,500 students must merge unless they are high-performing and highly efficient schools, are located on islands or serve Indian tribes.Districts may be exempted if they cannot fin...See the full content of this document
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