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Brookfield board debates how to verify student roster used for school funding
Summary
Selectboard members debated how to 'scrub' the roster from the Governor Wentworth Regional School District, which the town uses to allocate roughly $25,000 per student. Members suggested using the school representative (Dr. Manning), bus routes, and clerk/tax records to verify residency before challenging counts.
The Brookfield selectboard spent an extended portion of its March 17 meeting discussing how to verify the student roster the Governor Wentworth Regional School District submits each year — a list that drives roughly $25,000 in state aid per identified student.
Board members said the latest list format made it harder to count unique students because each student can generate multiple lines…
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