Dear Worcester Neighbors, Thank you to the community members who attended our Community Forum last Tuesday! We expect to have another forum in Worcester in April.
I am posting the message below on behalf of the Merger Study Committee of the Washington Central Supervisory Union:
UPDATE: Washington Central Supervisory Union Act 46 Merger Study Committee
FULL WCSU COMMUNITY FORUM March 23, 2016—7pm at U-32 in the Cafeteria
This forum will provide community members from all five towns an opportunity to meet together with the full Act 46 Study Committee and the WCSU Board of Directors to discuss the status of this work and to voice questions, comments and suggestions and talk about the future of all our kids.
Highlights from the Committee’s meeting on March 9th:
- The principals of each of our elementary schools and our high School discussed how a simpler governance structure might better serve students while noting how they work together under the current structure.
- We met with representatives from the Montpelier, Twinfield, and Roxbury school districts each of which is interested in possible collaborations. We will continue these exchanges as we explore governance models that could work for our supervisory union.
Please visit our website for updates and more detailed information and to read the minutes. https://sites.google.com/a/wcsu32.org/wcsu-act-46/home
BACKGROUND: Under Act 46, approved by the legislature in 2015, a Washington Central Supervisory Union study committee (composed of representatives from the five towns) is studying whether there is a form of school governance—school management—other than our current system of six separate school boards that would aid us in providing a better education for all our PreK-12 students at a sustainable cost. The study committee will produce either a specific recommendation or an update on its progress by June 30, 2016. Any recommendation would be voted on by the citizens of each of our five towns of Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex, and Worcester.
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