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Medway & Woodville Explore Options for High School

MEDWAY -- School officials from Medway and Woodville are exploring their options for educating their students.

Members of both school boards heard a presentation from SAD 67, which includes the Mattanawcook Academy, during their Tuesday school board meeting.

SAD 67 Superintendent Fred Woodman accompanied several members of the district’s administrative team and school board members to the meeting, which included a film about Mattanawcook Academy produced by its students.

The district is willing to discuss any length of contract, Woodman said.

“We’re looking for, in the long term, your kids, our kids, becoming one set of kids,” he said. He said that there were no restrictions. “We will talk about anything.”

In his presentation, Woodman said that SAD 67 could provide a “safe, stable, and progressive educational environment” for all students. As Superintendent, he said that he would act as an agent for Medway and Woodville.

Woodman told the group that the district also offers a continuing education plan, teacher inservices, and a late bus so that all students could take advantage of extracurricular activities.

Mattanawcook Academy has 460 students, and a per pupil cost of $6,047. Woodman said that tuition costs would remain at the state average or less.

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The chairman of the Medway school board, Steve Federico, said that the board will continue to attend meetings of the Millinocket and East Millinocket school boards, gathing information. He said that once a decision has been made on what to do with Schenck High School, Medway would take the information it has gathered and come up with a proposal for the good of its students.

Shellie Cote, the chairperson of the Woodville board said that many parents would rather have their children go to Lincoln than to Millinocket. She added that Millinocket officials had never showed her a curriculum she was happy with.

-- Ken Anderson 03/27/03