A gaffe at the Department of Education; Report Card hiatus

An already delayed school budgeting season has been delayed even further for about 90 Maine districts.
 
School systems received their subsidy estimates from the Maine Department of Education earlier this week. They're told to expect them each year in February.
 
The department is out today with an announcement that the estimates 90 districts received had errors.
 
Those 90 school systems are ones that did not consolidate under Maine's district merger mandate. The error has to do with the size of the funding reduction in store for those districts, the department tells us.
 
No other district -- those that reorganized as regional school units and alternative organizational structures and those that didn't have to consolidate -- is affected. In fact, districts that didn't reorganize, but are minimum subsidy receivers, weren't affected either.
 
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A note to Report Card readers: I'll be taking some time off next week (incidentally, the same week as public school vacation). The Report Card will be back on or around Friday, April 24.