Across Maine, Towns Continue to Grapple with School District Reorganization

Across Maine, towns continue to grapple with school district reorganization

More than 40 towns have withdrawn from their school districts since the state’s 2007 consolidation push.

Maine towns continue to grapple with school district reorganization

Photo by Robert F. Bukaty of the Associated Press.As children played at recess during one of the final weeks of the school year, MSAD 58 Superintendent Laura Columbia explained how several towns began pushing to leave the school district this spring, mainly out of concern that their communities could lose their local schools. “I’m not coming here to try to close a school, that is nothing any superintendent wants to do,” Columbia said. “But I do …