Cleveland School Officials Move To Avert State Takeover

By William Snider

Members of the Cleveland school board and the district's superintendent last week appeared to be nearing an agreement to end their long-running feud and avert a threatened state takeover of the school system.

In a document filed in federal court in Cleveland last month, state education officials said they would "move to eliminate the conflict and place the administration of the district in other hands" if the parties did not resolve their differences.

Among the conditions set by the state were that the school board drop its threat to fire the superintendent, Alfred D. Tutela, and that Mr. Tutela drop a lawsuit he filed last year...