No School Choice for Sippican School

            The Marion School Committee voted on May 8 to opt out of participation in the School Choice program for the next school year, keeping with the school district’s trend over the last several years.

            Superintendent Doug White reminded the committee that it must inform the Department of Education by June 1 whether or not it will offer any slots to out-of-district students for School Choice before making his recommendation.

            “My recommendation to the committee, with the uncertainty of housing in Marion and our current costs of … construct, that I think it’s important that we continued to not participate in School Choice at this time.”

            School Committee Chairman Christine Marcolini commented on the ”pretty healthy class sizes for next year,” and said, ”I don’t really think there’s any room at the inn for any excess.”

            The committee agreed and voted to opt out.

            Several members of the school committees and town officials in the three Tri-Towns have commented over the past several years that the state ought to reconsider the amount that home districts must pay the School Choice district to educate their student, which has been capped at $5,000 per pupil for nearly three decades since School Choice legislation as adopted.

            In other business, the committee voted to adopt a meeting schedule of every six weeks for the next school year.

            The next meeting of the Marion School Committee is scheduled for June 12 at 6:30 pm at Sippican School.

Marion School Committee

By Jean Perry

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