Are SAU39 Students Getting Our Money's Worth?
In March of this year, Superintendent Mike Berry published a brief update on SAU39 educational performance. He again committed to increasing educational performance and maximizing taxpayer return on investment. That relationship between educational performance (outcomes) and taxes paid for education (investment) is known as Educational Value. We thought we'd take a closer look at both sides of that equation. Superintendent Berry compared SAU39 to state averages. Given the very high annual...