{"id":14459,"date":"2017-09-22T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/?p=14459"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:44:08","slug":"maine-public-interviews-donaldson-report-district-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/2017\/09\/22\/maine-public-interviews-donaldson-report-district-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Public interviews Donaldson for report on district consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Donaldson, professor emeritus of education at the University of Maine, spoke with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mainepublic.org\/post\/10-years-later-maine-schools-still-wrestle-district-consolidation#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maine Public<\/a>\u00a0for the report, \u201c10 years later, Maine schools still wrestle with district consolidation.\u201d Ten years ago, Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed a law changing the structure of education across the state, forcing districts to consolidate with schools in nearby towns to save money. But a decade later, the consolidation experiment has led to more conflict than success in many districts, Maine Public reported. \u201cIn Maine, it\u2019s always going to come down to the local unit and the local community,\u201d Donaldson said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s the way it should be.\u201d He added that while some of the larger districts have stayed together and thrived, dozens of others have fallen apart as communities have sought to regain local control of their schools. One reason consolidation didn\u2019t work in so many districts, according to Donaldson, is that few saved money, and some communities feared the closure of a local school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Donaldson, professor emeritus of education at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for the report, \u201c10 years later, Maine schools still wrestle with district consolidation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Gordon Donaldson, professor emeritus of education at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for the report, \u201c10 years later, Maine schools still wrestle with district consolidation.\u201d","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[959,5,8],"tags":[985,264,986,776],"class_list":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-leadership","category-in-the-news","category-news","tag-district-consolidation","tag-gordon-donaldson","tag-john-baldacci","tag-maine-public"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":959,"label":"Educational Leadership"},{"value":5,"label":"In the News"},{"value":8,"label":"News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":985,"label":"district consolidation"},{"value":264,"label":"Gordon Donaldson"},{"value":986,"label":"John Baldacci"},{"value":776,"label":"Maine Public"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"ckelly","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/author\/caseykelly-2\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":959,"name":"Educational Leadership","slug":"educational-leadership","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":959,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1469,"count":103,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":959,"category_count":103,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Educational Leadership","category_nicename":"educational-leadership","category_parent":1469},{"term_id":5,"name":"In the News","slug":"in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":700,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":700,"category_description":"","cat_name":"In the News","category_nicename":"in-the-news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":8,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":795,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":8,"category_count":795,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":985,"name":"district consolidation","slug":"district-consolidation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":985,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":264,"name":"Gordon Donaldson","slug":"gordon-donaldson","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":264,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":986,"name":"John Baldacci","slug":"john-baldacci","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":986,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":776,"name":"Maine Public","slug":"maine-public","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":776,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14460,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions\/14460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/edhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}