DIXFIELD — The RSU 10 board admitted a high school student following a 45-minute closed session Tuesday night.
Superintendent Craig King said the boy had been expelled from another district and now will attend Dirigo High School in Dixfield.
The boy and an advocate met with the board prior to the vote. The majority of board members approved admitting him, while three members abstained from the vote.
In other matters, King reported on the status of the Buckfield Withdrawal Committee. He said the four-member group, on which RSU 10 board Chairman Jerry Wiley sits, has met twice and has planned a third meeting in early November.
King said he supplied the committee with comparative data from several school districts on classes, extracurricular activities and other offerings, as well as financial figures on the amount of investment RSU 10 has made in Buckfield, Sumner and Hartford, which formerly formed SAD 39.
Also on Tuesday, former RSU 10 board member John Phillips of Sumner was appointed to the Oxford Hills Technical School board. Buckfield, Hartford and Sumner high school students attend classes at the Paris school.
High school students from Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield, Canton, Peru, Carthage, Hanover, Roxbury and Byron attend the Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico.
The board also:
* Appointed Baily Williams as student representative on the school board.
* Accepted the resignation of Erick Black as a special education educational technician at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School.
* Appointed Larry Newton as a bus driver/custodian at Mountain Valley High School in Rumford; Amy Hughes as a bus driver/custodian at Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico; and Linda White as a food service worker at Dirigo Elementary School in Peru.
King said several hundred Apple MacBook laptop computers that were previously used by RSU 10 students will go on sale to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Central Office on Nash Street, Dixfield. Asking price is $300. All laptops have been refurbished and dozens of programs have been installed.
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