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Newport to Join Middletown in Unified High School Exploratory Comittee

Newport will join Middletown on a unified high school exploratory committee

Newport will join Middletown in the next steps towards school regionalization. Newport City Council voted, 7-0, to support a unified high school exploratory committee at Wednesday night’s city council meeting held at Newport City Hall.

The committee was formed by Middletown on Oct. 7, with a mission to conduct join discussions related to a combined school. 

“Newport will now appoint members from their council to be part of the committee,” Middletown Town Councilor Barbara VonVillas told Patch. She said although the Portsmouth Town Council has not provided full commitment to join the committee, they were was receptive to the idea Tuesday.

“We are trying to see who is on for the exploratory committee, “said Vonvillas.  “Even if they don’t want to be a partner, each community has a very different perspective,” she said. 

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 Tiverton is scheduled to discuss the matter on Dec. 10.

“We want to provide for 100 percent of the students,” added Middletown Town Councilor Richard Adams. He said the school should include a traditional and career and technical program. “There is no point in building what we have now, only bigger,” he said.

After the committee is formed, the next step is to seek enabling legislation and promote the concept within the partner communities.

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The committee’s goal is to allow voters to decide on the issue in November's election. 




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