Colonies to ask Havre Public Schools to pay for schools

Representatives of two Hutterite colonies will ask something of Havre Public Schools Tuesday night that they've been asking for several years to become a public school.

The East End and Hilldale private schools will request that Havre Public Schools take over the schools in their respective colonies. If approved, the schools would be staffed and funded by Havre Public Schools.

Havre school board chairman Jim Heberly said today that the colonies have approached the board several times in the last decade about taking over the private schools. The answer has always been no.

"I've been through...