HOULTON, Maine — Two Aroostook County superintendents have reversed an earlier decision and now will allow students to attend classes outside of their native school districts next year. After hearing pleas from multiple families, superintendents for RSU 29 in Houlton and SAD 70 in Hodgdon are no longer denying requests for superintendent agreements for students to attend school in other districts in the 2022-23 school year. Earlier this month, nearly 100 families of students in both RSU 29 in Houlton and SAD 70 in Hodgdon were shocked to learn their requests to send their children to a different school district were being denied. Citing a large increase in the number of superintendent agreements for the 2022-23 school year, both RSU 29 Superintendent Richard Lyons and SAD 70 Superintendent Stephen Fitzpatrick denied the majority of requests, leaving parents scrambling to make appeals with the Department of Education. Under Maine law, a student is required to attend classes in the school administrative unit where their parents reside, where they reside when they reach age 18 or where they reside if they become an emancipated minor. But sometimes it is in the student’s best interest to attend classes in a different school district, perhaps because one school offers programs that the other does not or a student may thrive in a smaller school setting. Whatever the reason, two superintendents may approve the transfer, provided they both find it is in a student’s best interest and the student’s parent or guardian permits the transfer.
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Joseph Cyr, Bangor Daily News
Thu, 05/26/2022 - 3:03pm
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