NCSU Act 46 plan is into the home stretch

copy­right the Chron­i­cle No­vem­ber 29, 2017

 

by Joseph Gresser

 

NEW­PORT — The North Coun­try Su­per­vi­sory Union is headed into the home stretch in its ef­fort to per­suade the state Agency of Ed­u­ca­tion to al­low it to con­tinue to op­er­ate as it has, rather than re­quir­ing it to con­sol­i­date un­der the terms of Act 46. North Coun­try Su­per­in­ten­dent John Cas­tle ap­peared at a meet­ing of the New­port City El­e­men­tary School board Mon­day to ex­plain what the su­per­vi­sory union hopes to achieve.

It was one of his last steps be­fore the four big binders con­tain­ing in­for­ma­tion in sup­port of North Coun­try’s re­quest for an al­ter­na­tive gov­er­nance struc­ture make the drive to the head­quar­ters of the ed­u­ca­tion agency in Mont­pe­lier.

The dead­line for de­liv­ery of the vol­umes is De­cem­ber 22.

Mr. Cas­tle told mem­bers of the el­e­men­tary school board and the four par­ents who showed up for the meet­ing not to ex­pect a de­ci­sion on the su­per­vi­sory union’s re­quest un­til next No­vem­ber.

He gave much of the credit for gath­er­ing and col­lat­ing the ma­te­r­ial to Liz But­ter­field, his ex­ec­u­tive as­sis­tant.

Mr. Cas­tle handed out copies of the re­port’s table of con­tents, ex­plain­ing the ma­te­ri­als were arranged to con­form with a state reg­u­la­tion put for­ward to flesh out Act 46.

Act 46 was en­acted in 2015 to deal with ris­ing ed­u­ca­tional costs and de­clin­ing school en­roll­ments.

The law seeks to do away with town school dis­tricts and re­place them with larger re­gional dis­tricts gov­erned by a sin­gle board.

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