The way to consolidation of Middletown and Lemon Township school districts was cleared somewhat by the Ohio General Assembly in its last session. The law governing consolidation had been interpreted prior to that to mean that part of a school system could be transferred to another district but the entire system could not. An amendment passed by the assembly made consolidation of complete school units legal. The bill which was introduced by Edward Dell and Representative Martin Lingler, will go into effect October 2. An additional provision of the amendment states that consolidation can be blocked if a majority of the voters in the transferred district, which in the present case would be Lemon Township, files a written remonstrance with the county board of education...

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