The district receives 200 to 300 requests a year for assistance and responds to 30 to 40 percent of them.
And his district has responded in kind.
"Leave the curriculum alone," responded teachers and parents from this upper-middle-income school district 30 miles north of Boston.
In 1971, the district responded to growing enrollment by building a new high school.
Students had said the district did not adequately respond to their complaints of persistent physical and verbal harassment based on real or perceived sexual orientation.
The district responds to approximately 8,500 emergencies per year, with about 60% of those being emergency medical incidents.
The district responded with a letter outlining efforts to select people to make up a new management team.
The district responded by adding buses, with each picking up 10 to 12 children.
I think districts have responded remarkably well to the economic difficulties we face.
The district responds to around 3,000 calls each year.