Stowe may go. That was the unanimous decision last week of the State Board of Education, which voted to allow Stowe to withdraw from the merged Lamoille South school district.
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The vote to withdraw from the merged district was 1,068-464 in favor.
The question remains: If thereâs a will, is there a way? Lawyers for the town and for the state have offered differing opinions on whether Act 46, the stateâs school district consolidation law, allows towns that were forced into mergers to leave them â the townâs lawyer thinks they can; the Agency of Educationâs lawyer does not.
In the lead-up to the vote, there were also questions of what Stowe schools have lost or gained from the merger.
In the end, it might not matter, because in voter turnout rarely seen outside a presidential election, 70 percent of those who cast a ballot chose to leave and go back to being a standalone school district.