Rep. Michael Vose has no personal problem with the performance of his local public school administrators. “The SAU in my town does a great job,” the Epping Republican said at a hearing last year, referring to the school administrative unit.
But verifying that belief, Vose says, is harder. If he or another resident wanted to check on how much the top school officials in the SAU were spending on their own management efforts, the traditional system would make that difficult.
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