3-3-10 budget cuts
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RSU 24
RSU 10
AOS 91
AOS 95
RSU 19
RSU 72
RSU 20
RSU 54
RSU 13
AOS 93
RSU 6
RSU 79
RSU 12
RSU 57
RSU 9/SAD 9
RSU 55
RSU 61
AOS 94
RSU 49
RSU 18
RSU 17/SAD 17
RSU 1
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RSU 64
RSU 25
RSU 34
RSU 78
RSU 60
RSU 5
RSU 39
RSU 38
RSU 75
RSU 8/SAD 8
RSU 65
AOS 92
RSU 14
RSU 3/SAD 3 THORNDIKE
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JAY
RSU 75
RSU 21
RSU 44/SAD44 BETHEL
S A D 74 ANSON
S A D 77EAST MACHIAS
RSU 2
RSU 67
RSU 29/SAD 29
RSU 37/SAD 37HARRINGTON
RSU 23
S A D 70 HODGDON
RSU 51
YORK
RSU 80/SAD 4GUILFORD
RSU 30/SAD 30 LEE
S A D 25 SHERMAN
RSU 41/SAD41 MILO
RSU 18
RSU 32/SAD32 ASHLAND
RSU 78
RSU 26
RSU 22/SAD 22
BLUE HILL
ISLE AU HAUTAUBURN
SURRY
BEALS
RSU 7/SAD 7
RSU 2
AIRLINE CSD AURORA
RSU 15/SAD 15
WAITE
S A D 58 KINGFIELD
PERRY
REED PLT
SHIRLEY
UPTONOTIS
AUGUSTA
WESLEY
RSU 67
RSU 11/SAD 11
RSU 64
S A D 53 PITTSFIELD
ACTON
RSU 39
LAKEVILLE
S A D 19LUBEC
S A D 14DANFORTH
GORHAM
CALAIS
S A D 24VAN BUREN
RSU 4 OAK HILL
HERSEY
MADRID
EASTON
ORIENT
DEDHAM
MILFORD
S A D 63EDDINGTON
MEDWAY
CASWELL
BRUNSWICK
MEDFORD
HOPE
HERMONBANGOR
COOPER
DREW PLT
PENOBSCOT
DEBLOIS
CARRABASSETT VLY
MORO PLT
NORTHFIELD
WOODVILLE
TALMADGE
WINTHROP
RSU 2
LISBON
JONESBORO
APPLETON
GILEAD
BEAVER COVE
S A D 13 BINGHAM
RSU 40/SAD 40 WALDOBORO
SO AROOS CSDDYER BROOK
RSU 67
ISLESBORO
RSU 31/SAD31 HOWLAND
MOOSABEC CSDJONESPORT
DEER ISLESTONINGTON
S A D 59 MADISON
SANFORD
S A D 59MADISON
PORTLAND
MADAWASKA
RSU 45/SAD 45WASHBURN
S A D 68 DOVER
FOXCROFT
S A D 23CARMEL
KITTERY
EAST RANGECSD TOPSFIELD
BROOKLIN
S A D 20FT. FAIRFIELD
BANCROFT
FIVE TOWN COMMUNITYSCHOOL DISTRICT
ALEXANDER
PRINCETON
BOWERBANK
S A D 28 CAMDEN
GREENBUSH
GREENVILLE
RSU 82/SAD 12JACKMAN
BROOKSVILLE
FAYETTE
S A D 33 ST. AGATHA
SCARBOROUGH
WILLIMANTIC
CAPEELIZABETH
CRAWFORD
LEWISTON
CARROLL PLT
FALMOUTH
RANGELEY PLT
PEMBROKE
WOODLAND
BAILEYVILLE
GRANDISLE
BIDDEFORD
BEDDINGTON
LINCOLNVILLE
KINGSBURY PLT
COPLIN PLT
GR LAKESTR PLT
HIGHLAND PLT
SEDGWICK
LINCOLN PLT
CHARLOTTE
BRIDGEWATER
NEWSWEDEN
RSU 35/SAD 35 ELIOT
ROBBINSTON
GLENWOODPLT
WELLSOGUNQUIT
WESTMANLAND
S A D 70HODGDON
NASHVILLE PLT
DENNISTOWN PLT
S A D 58KINGFIELD
CASTINE
ORRINGTON
RSU 42/SAD 42MARS HILL
S A D58 KINGFIELD
GEORGETOWN
BARING PLT
YARMOUTH
S A D 68 DOVER
FOXCROFT
VANCEBORO
MACWAHOCPLT
RSU 36/SAD 36 LIVERMORE FALLS
BREWER
EDGECOMB
MACHIAS
BOOTHBAY-BOOTHBAYHARBOR CSD
MARSHFIELD
WEST-BROOK
ROQUEBLUFFS
MEDDYBEMPS
INDIANTOWNSHIP
PLEASANTRDGE PLT
EASTPORT
SOUTHPORT
DENNYSVILLE
WHITNEY-VILLE
MILLINOCKET
SOUTHPORTLAND
LONGISLAND
INDIANISLAND
EASTMILLINOCKET
MONHEGAN PLT
PLEASANTPOINT
Maine's Reorganized School Districts and the Budget Cuts of March 3, 2010
This map prepared 4-1-10 by Movementech, Inc., Naples, MEphone: 207-749-1606email: [email protected]: www.movementech.org
With technical assistance from Southern Echo, Inc. 1350 Livingston Lane, Jackson, MS 39213phone: 601-982-6400fax: 601-982-2636email: [email protected]: www.southernecho.org
How this map works
This map depicts the percent of money each ME school district is gaining or losing from its overall budget because of cuts in the state's portion of the contribution to each school district budget.While some districts are receiving an increase in the state's commitment, overall the state is decreasing it's commitmentto Maine School districts by $70.7 million.
Increased appropriation percentages (where they occur) are depicted in green. All districts losing budget money are depictedin shades from yellow to pink. See legend above.
Legend
Maine School Districts
% Loss of Appropriated State Funds
-35.3% to -13.2%
-13.1% to -7.2%
-7.1% to 0.0%
+ 0.1% to +5.5%
+5.6% to +22.0%
Unorganized Territories
Despite claims from the state that the school districts that have engaged in consolidation were saving money, the state issued on March 3, 2010, a restated budget that includes $70.7 in cutsto school district allocations.
Three days after the Governor announced the budget cuts,the Maine state legislature took up proposed amendments to the law allowing districts to opt out of the consolidation program.According to the Kennebec Journal: "The changes recommended by the Education Committee would eliminateminimum size requirements that some rural districts have beenunable to meet, and would let towns withdraw from new school districts they have joined."
Public Law 2007, Chapter 240, Part XXXX passed on June 11, 2007 and Public Law 2007, Chapter 668 (enacted by passage of LD 2323, An Act to Remove Barriers to the Reorganization of School Administrative Units), passed on April 18, 2008, requires that all school units, of whatever form and whatever size - SADs, CSDs and municipal school units, small and large - must:
1. Work with other units to reorganize into larger, more efficient units; or 2. Where expansion of the unit would be impractical or inconsistent with state policy, reorganize their own administrative structures to reduce costs.
The intent of the law was to reduce the number ofdistricts from 290 to 80 with a minimum number of 2500 students in each district. Currently, theconsolidation effort has resulted in 215 districts. Under the law, school districts are required to work with other districts to develop a consolidation plan, submit it to local voters for local approval and then the state for final approval. Where consolidation efforts have faltered, it has been largely the result of voters rejecting proposed plans.
A revised list of 200 school districts,published on April 15 by MDE lists4 new reorganized districts largely composed of older districts where voters rejected a previous reorganization plan. Most of these new plans will be put to a vote by May 15, 2010.