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KP School Comm Discusses MASC Conference

The results of a conference of school committees were announced at Monday's KP School Committee meeting.

The King Philip School Committee members who attended the joint conference of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees and Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents reported the results of that session at their Monday meeting.

School Committee member Michael Gee, who helped represent King Philip at the conference, said much work was done in deciding what to ask of state legislators.

"There were a number of resolutions proposed to decide the legislative agenda," he said. "Of the seven resolutions, six were approved."

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Gee said the resolutions were intended to accomplish such things as getting the state to fund the difference between educating regular and special-education students and preventing the state from forcing regionalization on cities and towns.

Gee said another of the resolutions focused on charter schools. That resolution, he said, would have districts pay for such schools if the districts request them, and the state pay for the schools if the state wants them.

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"It also calls for more transparency in the charter-school funding formula," Gee said. "It would make it apples to apples."

Gee said one of the resolutions related to teacher retirements.

"It was about asking the state to end the practice of teacher retirement during the school year," he said, noting that there had been a retirement announced earlier in that school committee meeting. "It was rejected."

The final resolution, Gee said, focused around requesting that the state not impose further budget cuts.

Committee Chairwoman Wendy Robeson said she was pleased with the participation at the event.

"I know we had a good showing of our people at the conference," she said.


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