Would the consolidated district be eligible for additional state aid or incentive grants?
Under the current state budget, school districts that consolidate are eligible for additional state aid through a state consolidation incentive aid program. This would offset the costs ordinarily covered by local taxpayers and would help to ensure that educational programming in the new district would be high-quality. It is always difficult to predict how a new state budget will impact school districts, and this is especially true in these difficult economic times, but state legislators have indicated that these incentive dollars would likely continue to be available to the new district for the full five years. Also, should future situations arise in which funding to consolidated schools would be cut, it is likely that existing consolidated districts would continue to receive money, while new districts hoping to consolidate would not be eligible.
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