Leave or Stay? Sudbury Voters Decide on Minuteman School

SUDBURY, MA -- Sudbury is among the several towns who are leaning toward opting out of the Minuteman Vocational High School district. To do so, the town joined the 15 others in the district to adopt and accept a new regional agreement which would give those towns the option of leaving.

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To do so, the Sudbury Board of Selectmen called a Special Town Meeting for residents to vote on the regional agreement on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.

According to the new agreement, towns wishing to exit the district can do so by June 30, 2017, and after, would need approval from a majority of the members, reports the MetroWest Daily News.

Not everyone agrees. “I think there are several good reasons for Sudbury not to withdraw from the Minuteman District,” wrote Deborah Peters in a letter to the editor on Sudbury Patch. “The most compelling reason is what I have learned from personal experience, as a parent, because my son is one of the students from Sudbury who goes to Minuteman High School.”

All 16 towns are holding special town meetings to vote on the new regional plan.

The 16 members of the district are:

• Arlington
• Stow
• Acton
• Concord
• Belmont
• Bolton
• Dover
• Lexington
• Weston
• Carlisle
• Lancaster
• Sudbury
• Needham
• Wayland
• Lincoln
• Boxborough

Wayland, Dover and Weston are among the other towns suggesting that they would like to leave the district.