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Senators, principals clash over finance of choice towns, tuition and supervisory-union size
Summary
Committee questioning focused on whether 'choice' towns avoid facility costs for regional high schools, how tuition ($19,900) and tuition-headcount (83 students reported) feed district budgets, and whether supervisory-union consolidation or a revised foundation formula should be pursued.
A central theme in the White River Valley field hearing was finance: senators and local education leaders debated how tuition, bonding and the state's funding structure affect rural districts. An unidentified senator asked why choice communities do not participate in bonding for regional high-school facilities; the senator said the arrangement appeared "patently unfair" to towns that must bond for the same facilities.
District leaders and principals defended their finances and described how…
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