Wiscasset Police Chief Troy Cline is on the school committee’s agenda for March 26, to discuss the resource officer’s position now in its first year.

“The committee may wish to gather information on the effectiveness of the program,” Interim Superintendent of Schools Lyford Beverage writes in his agenda notes for Thursday night. The meeting in the Wiscasset High School library starts at 6 p.m.

“I do not anticipate any action, but rather an indication of committee support for continuation,” Beverage writes.

In November 2014, Officer Perry Hatch, two Wiscasset High students and Wiscasset High Principal Cheri Towle spoke positively to the Wiscasset Newspaper about Hatch’s presence in the school. The resource officer’s slot is included in an initial draft of the 2015-2016 municipal budget that will undergo review by selectmen and the town’s budget committee.

The school committee was also set to continue its review of policies, hear an update on changes eyed for the playground at Wiscasset Middle School, and further discuss school names.

According to Beverage’s latest superintendent’s report released with the agenda, the Maine Department of Education has now approved the committee’s educational plan in connection with next year’s closure of Wiscasset Primary School. The plan outlines how the town will educate the students displaced by the closure. The primary school’s grades will join grades four and five at the middle school; grades seven and eight will move from the middle school to the high school.

Beverage’s report also touches on a possible collaboration with Head Start on a regional pre-Kindergarten program.

“We are enthusiastic about this possibility, for it allows Wiscasset to move forward with a literacy-based education program designed for the pre-K population,” Beverage writes. Wiscasset Primary School Principal Mona Schein, the school department’s curriculum coordinator Patricia Watts and Beverage met earlier in March with a Midcoast Maine Community Action representative about the possible program, according to Beverage’s report to the school committee.

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