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Elwood board to draft opposition letter to NYSED regionalization emergency rule
Summary
Facing a December comment deadline, the Elwood Board of Education agreed unanimously to draft and send a letter opposing New York State Education Department emergency regionalization regulations, citing threats to local control and unclear fiscal impacts. Residents urged immediate action and some districts are pursuing litigation.
The Elwood Union Free School District Board of Education agreed during its November meeting to draft and submit an opposition letter to the New York State Education Department over the agency's emergency regionalization regulation.
Board members said the regulation, issued on an emergency basis, risks reducing locally elected boards' decision-making authority and could shift fiscal control to BOCES-like supervisory entities. "It is a mandate that all school districts minus the big 5 districts must abide by or lose funding by the…
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