Study to unify school districts under way

Yosemite High School

 

Yosemite Joint Union High School District and Coarsegold Union School District will jointly fund a study for justification to unify.

The two separate boards of trustees each voted unanimously last week to pay the firm of Nigro Nigro & White, LLP $15,000 to study the feasibility of the two districts unifying.

Christy White will meet with the boards at a special meeting Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. at Yosemite High School to discuss the scope of her study and to learn about specific issues the trustees and others want to have addressed.

Bill McCabe, superintendent of both of the school districts, said Ms. White will prepare an objective report that will provide definitive information on the feasibility of unification.

A fact-finding committee has been meeting since January to study unification.

After Ms. White’s study is completed, the two school boards will vote on whether to move forward with the process. If both boards approve, the issue will then go to the Madera County Board of Education. If the county board gives its approval, the state Board of Education will hear the proposal. If the state approves, then the proposal goes to the voters in the two districts.