School District 55 will ask voters in May to abolish local school committees.
The School Board voted to place the question on the ballot during its Jan. 13 meeting.
Local school committees were formed in 1964 with the unification of Sweet Home area school districts to make sure each area had representation as sounding boards for the unified School Board, Supt. Larry Horton said. “Basically, over the years, they served that purpose of being an…