Kyle Adams reports in The Daily Mail Douglas Ostrander has formally challenged the Cairo-Durham Central School District realignment plan. Ostrander is a district taxpayer, grandfather of current students and Cairo Deputy Supervisor. He claims to represent a group of more than 300 district residents in the petition filed Apr. 25, with the New York State Education Department. The petition requests the commissioner issue a stay order to halt progress toward enacting the plan. The petition argues the school board is not acting responsibly or in the best interest of the students or taxpayers in making the decision to realign the elementary program. Among the objections cited: Transportation issues, negligible educational benefits and a failure to adequately inform the public. The realignment plan approved by the board of education in December, will place grades K-2 in the Durham Elementary School and grades 3-5 in the Cairo Elementary School. The district has 20 days to file an appeal. District Superintendent Mary Fassett declined to comment. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.