BARTLETT — At its first meeting, the Bartlett School Board’s SAU exploratory committee seemed to come to the realization that it could cost more to leave SAU 9 than to stay put.
The seven-member committee, which met May 17 for more than two hours, agreed to meet again May 31 and to visit two communities that did what Bartlett is contemplating: they left larger SAUs to create their own.
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