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Testimony opposing LD 1283: An Act To Allow Students Choice in High School Enrollment
Testimony in opposition to
LD 1283: An Act To Allow Students Choice in High School Enrollment Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:00 PM Senator Langley, Representative Richardson, Distinguished Members of the Joint Standing Committee on Education and and Cultural Affairs, my name is Brian Hubbell and I am the chair of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System, a school district of 1700 students comprising the towns of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont, Trenton, Cranberry Isles, Frenchboro, and Swan’s Island. I am before you today as their representative. LD 1283: An Act To Allow Students Choice in High School Enrollment, Representative Maeghan Maloney (D-Augusta) ...requires school administrative units to allow school choice. Each school administrative unit must allow up to 20 8th grade students choice in public high school enrollment. Receiving schools are required to take the students as tuition students.
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