First school districts find a home under merger law revision

State Board of Education member John Carroll listens at the Aug. 30 meeting. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerThe State Board of Education recently approved the first school district merger under a revision to Act 46 that lets stand-alone districts join newly consolidated ones.The plan the board OK’d at its Aug. 30 meeting lets Rutland Town and Ira continue to operate as they have been but within a new supervisory union structure.Rutland Town had been part of Rutland Central Supervisory Union