Kyle Wind reports in the Daily Freeman the superintendent of the Hunter-Tannersville school district is proposing a gradual consolidation plan to state and local leaders. The idea has gained some traction among Greene County school officials. Patrick Darfler-Sweeney’s proposal will be discussed by the Greene County School Boards Association at the organization’s March 21 meeting, and county superintendents have already begun talking about the plan, Catskill Superintendent Kathleen Farrell said Mon., Feb. 18. “We have looked at collaboration everywhere we can,” Farrell said. Darfler-Sweeney's proposal would make all school superintendents employees of state government and they would be assigned to multiple school districts. The process would consolidate administrations and reporting requirements, make the larger areas into new taxation zones, merge school boards into consolidated bodies and create centralized business offices. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.