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Deadlines set for state lawmakers to vote on proposed school consolidation bills

The Council of Small Towns, led by Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi is providing an update on proposed school regionalization bills.   The Governor's proposal to redistrict and consolidate school districts and services must be acted on by April 1st. 

The Education Committee must vote to fully draft two other proposals by March 15th or they won't be considered further.  Those bills would mandate towns with a population of less than 40,000 to join a regional school district.  The other is about school districts with fewer than 2,000 students. 

There are some new school regionalization bills, which have been referred to the Education Committee.  Redding First Selectman Julia Pemberton says one allows towns to use a five-year lookback period in determining reductions in student enrollment under minimum budget requirements, extends various exemptions from those requirements to 2021, and allows towns to exclude catastrophic insurance losses in the calculation of their budgeted appropriation for education.

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