Seeking to halt Onteora’s march toward a single K-12 campus, two district parents have asked the state Education Department to stop the December 10 bond vote, blasting the timing and the removal of the Woodstock polling place as “arbitrary and capricious.”

“They resolved to close Woodstock Elementary as a polling site, which has never been done. Everybody’s always voted there. It’s ADA compliant, and they did not prove as to why they need to do this,” said school board candidate Daniel Aliberte, a single parent and paralegal who has assisted with the petition.

The Onteora School Board on October 21 unanimously approved a $26.9 million bond proposition titled “To Create a District Wide K-5 Elementary School.” If passed, it will fund eight new classrooms, an art room, expanded library, off

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