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Middletown council splits over regionalization process, tables parts of advisory‑committee plan
Summary
Councilors debated creating an Academic Integration Advisory Committee to study school integration with Newport; members split over process and scope, moved to table appointments until the council meets with the Middletown School Committee, but later appointed six advisory members to the slate to be notified.
Middletown — Councilors spent a prolonged portion of the meeting debating how best to study potential regionalization of Middletown and Newport public schools and what kind of committee should lead that effort.
Several councilors urged following the state process in Title 16, Chapter 3 — which outlines the duties of a regional school‑district planning board — rather than forming the narrower Academic Integration Advisory Committee (AIAC) proposed in the Newport resolution.
“We’re putting the cart before the horse,” one councilor said, arguing that the town should decide whether regionalization is the right move before appointing advisory members. Another councilor…
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