2006 Adoption Note.
1962 Bennington and North Bennington incorporated school districts and Shaftsbury voted yes on the articles below.
1962 Pownal and Woodford requested and were granted permission to join the Union District.
Article 1. To determine by ballot whether the voters of this district will vote to join a Union School District, the members of which district will be the Greater Bennington, the North Bennington Graded, the Shaftsbury Town and the Bennington Graded school districts, such Union School District to be formed pursuant to the authority granted by Vermont Statutes Annotated, Chapter 11, Title 16 thereof, and operated in accordance with the provisions of said statutes except as modified by the following agreements entered into by the districts which become members of the Union School District:
(a) Said Union School District shall operate schools covering Grades 7 through 12.
(b) The Senior High School, grades 9 through 12, shall be located in a new building within the limits of the Town of Bennington.
(c) The present high school building of the Bennington Graded School District shall be used to house the Junior High School, grades 7 and 8.
(d) All expenses of the Union School District, including by way of specification without limitation thereby, building, acquisition and construction coats, amortization of indebtedness and maintenance and operation shall be computed separately for the Senior High School and the Junior High School.
(e) The expense of the transportation provided for pupils who attend schools from the member districts of the Union School District shall be paid for by the Union District.
(f) Al1 expense of the Union Senior High School of the Union District as computed in accordance with (d) above shall be divided among the member districts in the proportion which 9th through 12th grade enrollment in each member district for the previous school year bears to the total number of 9th through 12th grade students enrolled in said year from all the districts that are members of the Union School District.
(g) All expenses of the Union Junior High School of the Union District as computed in accordance with (d) above shall be divided among the member districts in the proportion which 7th and 8th grade enrollment in each member district for the previous school year bears to the total number of 7th and 8th grade students enrolled in said year from all the districts that are members of the Union School District.
(h) Student enrollment shall not include students residing in member districts who are enrolled in private schools located outside the Union School District or in private schools located within the Union School District. A private school pupil residing within the Union District who takes not more than two courses in a school year at a school operated by the Union School District shall not be regarded as a student enrolled in such union school in determining the student enrollment of a member district.
(i) The school board of the Union School District shall consist of two directors from each member district as such member district is constituted at the time the Union District is organized.