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A modest proposal by President Clinton for vague and voluntary national standards provoked strong opposition in Congress and elsewhere. A variety of efforts on the part of states to introduce some forms of curriculum guidelines and to reinforce them with statewide testing have stirred up strong reactions at the local level. Reinforcing this local response to setting standards has been the hostility toward government that has characterized the politics of the last two decades. Increasingly, elected officials have won office on a platform of being relentlessly anti-government. They see their primary job as an effort to protect local communities and individual citizens from the intrusion of government control Denver should consolidate its program for gifted middle-schoolers to stop children from leaving for private, charter and magnet schools, the program''s leader said Thursday.

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, curriculumframework 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. curriculumframework 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,