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The officials at work planning a consolidated, regional high school for students in the Rockland and Thomaston areas have gotten their way.
Their plan to merge Rockland District High School and Georges Valley High School into Many Flags, One Campus is poised to carry the "pilot project" designation for high school construction projects that propose locating high school, vocational and higher education courses on one campus, according to a press release from Many Flags project coordinator Alan Hinsey.
In a state Department of Education ranking, the Many Flags project outscored a Sanford project that would have partnered high school courses with vocational and community college offerings.
The designation puts Many Flags first in line when construction funding becomes available for regional high school projects that incorporate technical and higher education. The Many Flags project, for example, would incorporate classes from Rockland-area university satellite centers and a center offering boat building, design and engineering courses.
The Many Flags designation is a reversal from a ranking last year that put the Sanford proposal ahead. The state Board of Education was set to make the Sanford project the pilot, but put off a decision at the advice of Assistant Attorney General Sarah Forster. That delay allowed Many Flags to file an appeal with the Department of Education that challenged Sanford's higher score.
The pilot project designation for Many Flags is far from a guarantee of construction funding anytime in the near future. But it's the next step toward building the first-of-its-kind regional high school.
A bill legislators passed unanimously in April 2008 -- sponsored by then Rep. Chris Rector, R-Thomaston -- created the regional high school designation, setting aside construction funding for such projects.
The Many Flags project, according to the project website, responds to demand for college-level classes in the area, and an economic need for higher education options in that region.
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