Denver now offers its gifted-and-talented program at three schools - Baker, Place and Smiley - so students get special instruction near home. But Barbara Neyrinck, head of gifted-and-talented programs for Denver Public Schools, said the programs need to be consolidated to make them stronger, more of a priority and more appealing School administrators science online proposed creating an expanded special education program for high school students wednesday in response to the rising costs of out-of-district placements. the goal is to keep special education students in the district, superintendent randy bell said. the program, proposed during the school board’s business meeting, would target high school students and involve both hudson and litchfield. the biggest area of the special education budget is out-of-district costs, said leslie derbyshire, special services director. in addition to tuition costs,

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 online won’t have the same situation next year,” derbyshire science 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 online getting out of hand," said school board member doug hillensbeck,

maintain the system hampered the district''s effort to offer other resources. it''s not that cdln was terrible, but the new system allowed the district to spread its money further. people can now put books on hold via the web site and can search the library''s database. it also offers electric library that lets students research topics through sources such as newspapers, magazines and books. the students really like science it, and the new features," said bismarck online 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

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