Before Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s board meets again in March, if Maine Center for Disease Control stops requiring masks for schools to avoid contact tracing, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle can make masks optional, the board.
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle’s report to the district’s board for its Thursday, Jan. 13 meeting states the following On Jan. 5 RSU 12 began implementing the newly updated Standard Operating.
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Thanks to $700,000 in COVID-19 relief funds, Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 can avoid a “pretty significant” staff cut, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle told the district’s board Thursday night, April 8. The risk of cuts stemmed from the “devastating” $420,000 drop in state subsidy the district learned of in February, Tuttle said.
He learned in March, the relief money can go to keeping staff and programs. Without it, towns would be facing a 20% hike, “which obviously we would not do, so we would be reducing staff and creating bigger class sizes,” he said in the April 7 meeting carried over Zoom and Youtube.
Wiscasset selectmen to take up citizens’ request Tuesday night
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A cleared walkway along the front of the Wiscasset municipal building Jan. 5, 2018. File photo
Bill Maloney and Judith Colby do not know if Wiscasset would save or lose money tuitioning out its high school students. No one knows, they said in phone interviews Wednesday. And if it happened, both said they would want the town to go into it knowing the numbers. So the two are asking selectmen to ask voters next June for a committee to do the math.
“What’s the impact on money from the federal and state government; transportation costs of sending children, are they going to be accepted at say Bath or Lincoln Academy? There’s a lot of loose ends,” said Maloney, who serves on the budget committee and served on the downtown project’s public advisory committee. “So, if you get this stuff out of the way before, then if someone wants to eliminate the high school, yo