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Contoocook Valley board debates narrow open-enrollment warrant to protect German program
Summary
The Contoocook Valley School District board discussed and tentatively advanced a warrant article to designate the district’s German program as an open-enrollment program (allowing up to 2% nonresident students in, while setting outgoing resident transfers at 0%) to preserve program access amid recent court and legislative changes to open-enrollment rules.
The Contoocook Valley School District board spent the longest portion of its Dec. 18 meeting debating whether to place an open-enrollment warrant article on the March ballot that would open a single academic program to nonresident students while limiting resident students’ ability to leave.
Administrators told the board the change is a response to a recent Supreme Court decision and to statutory amendments affecting Career and Technical Education (CTE) open-enrollment, which together have sharply narrowed districts’ ability to control tuition and student movement. The superintendent said the district would be required to pay 80% of its average per-pupil cost…
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