And the district of 1,450 students is training teachers in crisis prevention.

The district of 44,000 students has about 60 elementary schools, with more than half of those schools housing K-8 programs.

The superintendent focused on professional development, doubling the grant money in the district of 10,000 students, to about $14 million this year.

While the district of fewer than 300 students has on-site advanced placement courses, it can't offer a wide selection.

East Williston is a small district of 1,500 students and 100 full-time teachers.

But to Mr. Sherman, the larger question was why more parents had not come out in a district of 11,600 students.

In recent weeks, though, many people have lost patience with the board's explanations about what has befallen the district of 3,300 students.

In a virtually all-black district of 170,000 students, 70 percent are being reared by single mothers.

The small district of 1,800 students needed an academic jump start and several new buildings.

Through the mid-1980's, however, its handicapped children had attended special education classes in the Monroe-Woodbury schools, a district of 6,600 students.