POLAND — Residents in Regional School Unit 16 voted 1,345 to 586 on Tuesday to approve a $22.3 million school budget for 2018-19. RSU 16 includes Poland, Minot and Mechanic Falls. The budget represents a 3.7 percent increase from current spending, and boosts property taxes on a $100,000 house by $99.63 in Minot, $92.45 in Mechanic Falls and […]
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Lewiston voters to decide on regional service center for schools
Tuesday’s ballot asks Lewiston voters if they want city schools to join a regional service center. LEWISTON — Lewiston voters will be asked Tuesday if they want city schools to join a regional service center to improve efficiency and protect state education money. In his recent monthly report, Superintendent Bill Webster explained that a regional […]
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RSU 10 state funding for regionalization far less than expected
RUMFORD — Superintendent Deborah Alden told Regional School Unit 10 directors Monday that the district would get far less state money than expected if it joins five other districts to form a Regional Service Center. She said instead of the $293,677 estimated by the school district’s attorney, the Maine Department of Education sent information Wednesday […]
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School systems move forward with regional partnership
LEWISTON — Despite their opposition to the idea, school superintendents are moving forward with a “regional service center” plan promoted by the state. Lewiston, Auburn, Poland’s RSU 16 and Turner’s SAD 52 have submitted initial state paperwork to partner for substitute teacher services and special needs services for 3- to 5-year-olds. Lewiston, Auburn and Poland […]
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School board does an about-face on joining service center
BUCKFIELD — Regional School Unit 10 directors on Monday reversed their decision last month not to join a regional service center. Superintendent Deborah Alden told directors that during a fall conference in Augusta, she received a lot of information about the Maine Department of Education’s regional service center proposal. “I use the analogy of propping […]
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SAD 44 considering regional service center
BETHEL — School Administrative District 44 directors voted unanimously Monday evening to approve submitting a preliminary application to the Maine Department of Education for the district to form a regional service center with six other districts. The regional center would be formed for the purpose of providing special education day treatment services, substitute teacher training, hiring […]
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RSU 56 board tables decision on joining center
PERU — The Regional School Unit 56 board tabled a decision Tuesday on whether to join a Regional Service Center because they need more time. “I will continue to put my feelers out there to see what we could possibly do,” Superintendent Pam Doyen told them. State legislators passed a law setting up Regional Service […]
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RSU 16 board votes against state's regionalization push
POLAND — The RSU 16 school board voted Monday not to move forward with a “regional service center” plan promoted by the state. The decision will cost the Poland, Minot and Mechanic Falls school system $78,000 in state funding next year and $161,000 the year after. But Superintendent Tina Meserve said board members felt there […]