HB1644

This would be disruptive to cooperatives and would not be in best interests of students.

This would be a disaster for the other towns in such a district. Having at one point served on my town school board and then subsequently worked in schools later, the amount of time and money it would take to cope with such a situation would, at the bottom line , hurt all the students involved, as well as the staff, etc.

This is a terrible idea and veru detrimental to the other school districts in the SAU.

This is against local control...local communities should decide this.

I strongly oppose HB 1644 because allowing unilateral withdrawal from cooperative school districts would destabilize public education across entire regions. Cooperative districts depend on shared responsibility and long-term planning; unilateral exit would harm students, undermine equity, and jeopardize the state’s obligation to provide an adequate education

Cooperative School Districts only work if all members participate. To allow a single school to summarily withdraw from a Co-opoerative district will obviously throw the financial aspect of the district as well as class sizes and distribution of students into complete disarray. The withdrawing school would suffer in the same ways that the rest of the cooperative would. Vote NO

I live in Hillsborough, part of the Hillsboro-Deering Cooperative district, There is a movement now to have Deering leave the district. If they do, there will be some serious negative effects on Hillsborough. Hillsborough residents should be able to vote on this big change, as it affects both towns. Please ITL this bill. Thank you.

I urge you to oppose this bill which could create chaos and destabilize cooperative school districts.

I think this bill would is likely to disrupt the whole structure of the remaining cooperative, so I oppose it.

Cooperative school districts are ones that include several communities that, at some point, chose to come together to find efficiencies and other benefits from working together. This bill would allow a single community to leave a cooperative district without giving the remaining communities any say in the matter. This kind of withdrawal (usually by one of the wealthier communities in the district) is likely to disrupt the whole structure of the remaining cooperative, to increase its per pupil costs and to leave its students with fewer resources.

I oppose this bill as it would totally disrupt an already established cooperative school district if one of those schools could withdraw.

This bill enables a single community to leave cooperative district they previously agreed to join to increase efficiency and offer other benefits via working together, without giving other communities in the cooperative any say in the matter, something that historically only benefits the wealthier district as they leave the cooperative, causing disruption to the whole cooperative district, increasing the per pupil cost, and leaving students with fewer resources. It seems like another small chipping away the right-wing members of our legislation continue to work on to try and destroy public education in our state.

My children go to school in Derry, and I do want the whole town to decide what my children do or don’t do in school. As a resident please oppose this. This is in acceptable.

This would allow one town to erode a cooperative district that was unified with a consensus, which violates the intent of a cooperative. This is rife for abuse and could send us right back to the era of segregated schools. I oppose.

We are in a cooperative school district. There should be a process for dissolving partnerships, not unilateral withdrawal. The size of the district, academics, staff, etc would be severely impacted with the loss of one partner. This would seriously impact the education of the students remaining in the district.

Cooperative school districts are ones that include several communities that, at some point, chose to come together to find efficiencies and other benefits from working together. This bill would allow a single community to leave a cooperative district without giving the remaining communities any say in the matter. This kind of withdrawal (usually by one of the wealthier communities in the district) is likely to disrupt the whole structure of the remaining cooperative, to increase its per pupil costs and to leave its students with fewer resources.

The state government needs to stay in their lane. Let the towns and committees do what they need to do. I thought the republican ideal was to not to over govern. What happened to that philosophy ?

I am writing to OPPOSE this bill. This could significantly disrupt school district budgets and raise property taxes on those in cooperative school districts unnecessarily. Please stop this fight against public education.

This bill could significantly disrupt school district budgets and raise property taxes on those in cooperative school districts

This bill would interfere with a school district's ability to fully fund these schools and raise property taxes on those schools remaining.

This bill is harmful to cooperative school districts, their students, teachers, funding, and educational standards. Allowing a town to make this choice creates an outrageous power imbalance between towns, threatening the accessibility of quality education, which is your job to uphold.

It’s a big decision should it not require a big majority?

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