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Hancock and Warwick seek exemptions from school‑choice cost rule; committee urges a statutory fix
Summary
Small rural elementary districts Hancock and Warwick told the Joint Committee on Education that the department’s enforcement of a decades‑old interpretation of M.G.L. ch. 76, § 12B(k) is creating untenable tuition liabilities and asked for home‑rule exemptions while committee chairs asked the districts to propose a universal statutory fix.
Officials from Hancock and Warwick urged the Joint Committee on Education to grant local relief from a state regulation that, they say, unexpectedly requires accepting districts to pay secondary tuition for choice students through high‑school graduation.
Hancock Superintendent Rebecca Phillips and Warwick Superintendent Carol Learned Miller (testifying as Carol Lernit Biller in the record) said districts historically accepted school‑choice students for elementary grades and relied on long‑standing tuition arrangements for secondary placement. A recent Department…
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