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Missiscocoy Valley superintendent urges changes to supervisory-union map to preserve CTE ties
Summary
Julie Reinball, superintendent of Missiscocoy Valley School District, told the Senate Education Committee the proposed supervisory-union configuration (SU 11) does not align with her preK–12 district’s operations and could weaken career-technical education partnerships with Maple Run; she urged leaving her district unmerged or reconfiguring to maintain operational alignment.
Julie Reinball, superintendent of the Missiscocoy Valley School District, told the Senate Education Committee on March 13 that the draft supervisory-union map would place her district into a configuration that does not match its operational model and could disrupt career-technical education partnerships.
For the record Reinball said: “I am Julie Reinball. I'm superintendent of the Missiscocoy Valley School District. Here we serve Swanton, Highgate, and Franklin.” She explained that MVSD is a preK–12 single district that merged previously under Act 46 and now enrolls about 1,889 students across four schools (three elementary schools and one 7–12 middle/high school). Reinball said the district does not have school-choice patterns the map’s framers used to group other towns and that placing Missiscocoy in Supervisory Union 11 would join it with districts that operate on different grade configurations.
Reinball also flagged career-technical education (CTE) as a critical consideration. She said MVSD is part of the regional career and technical center network that includes Maple Run and that alignment with that center strengthens programs for students; she argued that the map should preserve those operational and programmatic ties rather than simply grouping towns by geographic or choice-island logic.
Committee members asked how many students and schools the district serves. Reinball responded that MVSD serves roughly 1,889 students, that the middle/high population is about 712, and that elementary schools range from roughly 130 to more than 600 students. She described a lean administrative team (noting she does not have an assistant superintendent) and cautioned that larger consolidated districts can introduce additional layers of administration that affect local responsiveness.
A committee member proposed considering a single unified school system with distributed administrators responsible for 2,000–4,000 students each; Reinball called the concept “intriguing” but said logistics and bureaucracy would need careful analysis.
The committee thanked Reinball and asked stakeholders to continue submitting feedback on the map; no formal action was taken during the session.
