By Paul Westmoore, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Nov. 18--NORTH TONAWANDA -- Faced with declining enrollment and school buildings in need of at least $20 million in improvements, the North Tonawanda School Board may consider closing a school or two in the not-toodistant future.

OF THE many hints about reforms to be featured in the forthcoming White Paper on education, the latest is the most radical - an effort to blur the distinction between private and state schools.