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Sen. Bongers outlines plan to shrink Vermont supervisory unions, give districts two-year voluntary merger window
Summary
Senator Bongers told the House Education committee on Feb. 25 that his map-driven proposal would create larger supervisory-unit footprints, aim to reduce many SUs and districts by roughly half, and give local districts two years to merge voluntarily before the state board could impose consolidations.
BURLINGTON — Senator Bongers told members of the House Education committee on Feb. 25 that he is proposing a statutory map and governance framework to create larger supervisory units (SUs) and substantially reduce the number of school districts in Vermont.
Bongers said the plan’s central aim is to “gain efficiencies, gaining larger units,” and to cut the number of SUs and school districts so the foundation funding formula can be applied to larger units. “Larger units, fewer SUs and fewer SUs half and half, and then districts within the SUs reduced by more than half,” he said.
Under the proposal, the SU boundaries would be set in statute and many districts inside those SUs would be encouraged to merge. Districts in a large gray area on the map…
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