it is often expensive to transport students to other towns, she said. Several high school students are being educated outside the towns. A number of students requiring additional services recently moved into the district, increasing costs, Derbyshire said. The special education budget currently has an $87,000 deficit, she said. That’s why I proposed the budget the way I did tonight. So we won’t have the same situation next year,” Derbyshire said after the meeting. The proposal is still being developed. Officials have to determine whether the program would be housed at Alvirne High School in Hudson or Campbell High School. There may not be enough room at Alvirne, Derbyshire said. The School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to throw out its provisional custody policy unless a court orders the policy restored. I think we did the right thing because this was getting out of hand," said School Board member Doug Hillensbeck,

all political stripes, including long-standing Tories - are hoping their grassroots movement will bring about a groundswell of support. The full-page ad reads, in part: ``Large classes. Fewer special education classes. school Reduced library staff. Fewer arts programs . . . Does this sound like your school?'''' The first reports one appears school in today''s Star. The funding formula is not meeting needs of kids in Toronto, or anywhere,'''' said Joanne Pauli, speaking reports on behalf of the newly formed Friends of Public She has three children, one at school North Toronto Collegiate. Most of the parents have some connection to the collegiate; the idea for the ad campaign came out of a parent council meeting. The one-size-fits-all formula isn''t really fitting anyone at all,'''' Pauli said. In 1998, the provincial government seized control of education spending, taking away individual boards'' ability to raise their own taxes depending on their reports needs. It now spends $13.4 billion a year.

In that year, which was some 40 years after the start of a massive effort by reformers to consolidate districts into larger administrative units, there were school about 120,000 individual school districts in the U.S. This meant that on average there were only two schools per district. Now, that is really local control. Even now, after consolidation reports and school has continued for another 60 years, we still have about 15,000 separate school districts -- each with primary control over financing, staffing, and setting curriculum standards for our schoolsCertainly state governments have taken steps over reports the years to assert greater control over these matters in K-12 schooling, and even the federal government has made tiny and tentative moves in this direction. But all these efforts have been undertaken in the face of enormous resistance by local communities, which have vigorously fought to preserve the autonomy of their schools.

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