Windsor Maine Townspeople

Schools, School Budget, and Consolidation

Stay informed on school issues:

Consolidation progress currently there are Regional School Unit (RSU) ongoing weekly meetings each Thursday night. Visit the stories to track the issue.

School Governance Issues Rattle Sheepscot Valley RPC
Story date: 01/30/2008
By Lucy L. Martin
The reorganization planning committee (RPC) for the Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit (RSU) stumbled at a predictable bend in the road toward consolidation:
whether local school boards would exist in the new eight-town consolidation.

http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=30164
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Sheepscot Valley RSU Planners Focus on Fair Costs

Story date: 01/16/2008

By Lucy L. Martin

School reorganizers meeting in Whitefield swore a kind of Hippocratic oath aimed at fair treatment.

The planning committee (RPC) for the seven-town Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit agreed Jan. 10 that the funding formula for each town's tax commitment
for education would have a variance of no more than three percent, plus or minus.

http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=29907

Feb. 16, Town Meeting Warrant Articles: the Reed Fund

Here are the warrant articles that were approved at the town meeting. After discussion, they were approved as noted in a KJ article which is headlined and linked here also.
(See "Town Meetings" page for the full warrant.

From the KJ: Sunday Feb. 17

WINDSOR -- Residents voted Saturday to preserve the Reed Fund for the Town of Windsor by moving the assets -- some $160,000 at last count -- into a new
Windsor Educational Foundation.

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/4775206.html