maintain the system hampered the district''s effort to offer educational other resources. It''s not that CDLN was terrible, but the new tools system allowed educational the district to spread its money further. People can now put books on hold via the Web site and can tools search the library''s database. It also offers Electric educational Library that lets students research topics through sources such as newspapers, magazines tools and books. The students really like it, and the new features," said Bismarck High library media specialist Charlotte Hill. very user friendly." One of the new options that has made life easier for students is called the book bag, Hill said. Students can a topic search and then drop each book title that they want into their book bag on the computer screen. Theym,can then make a printout of the titles in a bibliography format and collect their books. They weren''t able to make a printout before," Hill said. They had to

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 educational into the district, increasing costs, Derbyshire said. The special education budget currently has an $87,000 deficit, she said. Thatÿýs why I proposed the budget the way I did tonight. So we wonÿýt have the same situation next year,ÿý Derbyshire said after the meeting. The proposal is still being developed. Officials have to determine whether tools the program would be housed at Alvirne High School in Hudson or Campbell High School. There may not be enough educational 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,

currently so strong that it may well leave a number of listeners wondering why such an obviously needed and beneficial reform wasn''t tools undertaken a long time ago. But the fact is that the effort to establish educational standards has always been an uphill fight in this country. In light of these circumstances, it is useful to examine why Americans have so vigorously resisted educational educational standards over the years. The history of such resistance suggests that there are three factors in particular that have made standards such a hard sell: a commitment to local control of schools, a commitment to expansion of educational opportunity, and a commitment to form over substance in the way we think about educational accomplishment. All three of these factors, tools which I treat below, can be traced in large part to our preference for one particular purpose of education: