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Witness urges flexibility on district consolidation, highlights supervisory-union limits
Summary
Testifying to the House Education Committee, Jay Nichols said supervisory unions can limit student access to programs, described personnel and benefit complexities, and urged local flexibility on the '3 or fewer' service-designation rule if districts consolidate.
During his Feb. 10 testimony to the House Education Committee, Jay Nichols of the Vermont Principles Association explained differences between supervisory unions and unified school districts and urged caution about overly prescriptive designation thresholds as districts restructure.
Nichols said supervisory unions are "a loose confederation" in which employees…
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