Report shows little benefit to new regional district

[ Originally published on: Saturday, October 10, 2009 ]

AMHERST -- The creation of a regional school district makes little financial sense for the towns of Amherst, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury, according to a report issued by the panel charged with studying the matter.

The report concluded that any savings generated by regionalizing the schools in those four towns would be minimal.

The committee's next step: studying whether regionalization makes sense in educational terms.

The subject of regionalization was one the panel took up earlier this year in response to pressures from the state, which had been seeking to consolidate the number of school districts across the state.

Currently, the towns of Leverett and Shutesbury belong to the Union 28 School District while Amherst and Pelham belong to the Union 26 School District.

 

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