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TOWN OF HOLDEN v. WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE

445 Mass. 656 (2005)

TOWN OF HOLDEN v. WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 29, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John O. Mirick for the plaintiff.

Jane L. Willoughby, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Education.

Brian W. Riley for town of Rutland.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, & Cordy, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

This case lays bare the tensions between education reform measures enacted by the Legislature in 1993 (the Education Reform Act, St. 1993, c. 71, which established a wholly new system for public school finance and governance in the Commonwealth) and agreements reached by small towns that joined together (sometimes decades ago) to form regional school districts to provide a quality education beyond their capacity...

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