Committee Representatives Present Plan to Fully Regionalize Acton and Boxborough Schools
Regional School District Study Committee members Mary Brolin and Xuan Kong shared their group’s plan to integrate Acton and Boxborough elementary schools into the Acton-Boxborough system.
Despite power outages and impassable roads in both towns, a record number of Acton and Boxborough residents attended the Regional School District Study Committee’s most recent community forum, held at Acton Town Hall the night of Oct. 30. The 50 attendees represented almost ten times the usual number, according to Joanne Berry, who helped publicize the event. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, the meeting featured a presentation by committee members Mary Brolin and Xuan Kong and an hour-long question-and-answer session. The proposal to add Blanchard to the regional school district is the result of a year’s worth of discussion, drafts, and revisions, and is available on the study commission’s website . Last spring, at their respective…
Dana Farrill
10:10 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Boxborough has greater benefits on every level and the costs are disproportionately on Acton. The savings is 600K/year split 65% 35%. But if you analyze that as a per household benefit (savings per household by town) you get the following numbers. Acton would save approximately $43.36 per household per year. Just enough to fill up my gas tank once. Boxborough would save approximately $113.33 per … more ›