Short Spoken Public Hearing Testimony Boothbay's Repealed and Replaced School Charter

Testimony submitted to be spoken places the charter within the framework of home rule vs state central management of everything

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I have received information about a public hearing scheduled for the Boothbay School Charter No. 1786 H.P. 1149 this coming Tuesday May 9 2003

My previous post was the long-written version of my testimony. Since the charter says it will be governed by state law, it was indeed state law that had to be discussed.

I felt that was too long for a spoken testimony and so I also submitted this testimony to be spoken in the Zoom Meeting on Mau 9 at 1:00 pm.

Senator Rafferty and the Committee of members of the Educational and Cultural Affairs Committee. My name is Susan Mackenzie Andersen. I am a member of the Boothbay Community School District where I attended school through grade 12, graduating in 1966. My parents moved to the region in 1952 to establish a small free enterprise business, Andersen Design, that designed and made ceramics and taught those skills on the job to the women who used to work in the fish packing industry. The original school charter, …