Byline: KAREN NELIS Staff writer
The state Education Department will begin reviewing 139 school districts - including six in the Capital Region - for possible mergers, under a plan approved Friday by the state Board of Regents.
The regents postponed, however, a decision on whether state Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol should have the authority in some circumstances to order mergers against the wishes of local residents.
A statewide advisory committee on mergers had recommended that the commissioner should be able to order a merger if it would clearly help a district improve the quality of its education.
Sobol had initially favored the …
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