School Consolidation Process, Outcome Anger Some Residents

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FREEPORT - Directors of the new Durham-Pownal-Freeport school system faced nearly 100 residents - some of them angry - at Wednesday night's meeting on the legal and financial ramifications of consolidation.

What concerns and angers them most, residents said, were the tax impact, the lack of any notable economic or educational benefits, the compressed timeline for getting the system up and running, and the absence of any assistance from the state, which ordered the move to provide better education for less money.

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School Consolidation Process, Outcome Anger Some Residents

The law requiring the state's 290 school systems to be realigned into 80 was passed in June 2007. The numbered Regiona...

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