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Sen. Dan Innes proposes requiring districtwide votes before elementary school closures
Summary
Sen. Dan Innes told the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee a petition process should require every town in a multi-town school district to vote before an individual elementary school can be closed, citing small class sizes and $60–$80 million renovation needs as drivers.
Sen. Dan Innes, representing District 7, introduced legislation to change how communities vote on closing elementary schools in multi-town districts. "So what this bill does is says, okay. You wanna close the school... it's a vote by every town in the district, not just the one in which the school resides," Innes said during a committee hearing.
Innes told the committee the idea grew from conversations with a school superintendent in a rural district where average elementary class sizes run about 8 to 10 students…
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