School Choice Number Set By School Committee
By a 4-3 vote, the School Committee on Monday gave Superintendent Olsen the authority to admit up to 22 out-of-town students for the upcoming school year.
More details on School Choice in Westford Schools next year took shape during Monday night’s School Committee meeting with the number of out-of-district students coming now set at a maximum of 22 following the board’s split 4-3 decision. The reduced number was proposed by Superintendent Bill Olsen and became the main focal point between the arguments that School Choice students were necessary sources of income for the embattled district budget and that out of town students would actually bring more cost than benefit. One of the strongest voices against the motion on was School Committee member Erica Kohl, who reiterated her concerns from the earlier and broader debate over the program regarding the view that the program would lose the …
