Officials of a facility for troubled teens in Jim Thorpe say negotiations with the Jim Thorpe Area School District over educational funding have reached a stalemate.

The facility, the privately owned Youth Services Agency, locally known as Camp Adams, currently provides on-site classes for the teens, who were sent there by the courts.But agency officials said the school district is not providing as much funding as it should, and that if the agency doesn't get more money, it will close its classes and send the teens to the Jim Thorpe High School.That possibility has parents up in arms. More than 200 attended a June 16 school board meeting to discuss the matter.At that meeting, Superintendent Barbara Conway said the agency routinely fails to submit school and student information on time to be reimbursed.She said the agency's allegations that the school district failed to forward educational funds in a timely manner weren't true.State law says all children within a school district must be offered an education, with certain exceptions, including expulsion for weapons offenses.On Friday, the Bucks County-based agency's clinical director, Kris Caffier, sent a press release to news media saying its negotiating team met twice with school officials, submitting "detailed proposals" to the school board on June 23, but that the district rejected the proposals "in entirety."School officials have remained close-mouthed on the subject.In a telephone conversation Friday, school board President Dennis McGinley said he and the other directors were instructed by an attorney to not comment on the matter to the news media.Efforts to reach Conway and school district solicitor Gregory Mousseau were unsuccessful Friday and Monday."On June 26, JTASD, without any movement on YSA's latest proposal and without offering a counterproposal, declared an "impasse," and said it had no movement to offer on YSA's proposals," founder Roger Dawson said in the release."It now appears that JTASD is insisting to impasse on terms that will require them to integrate YSA students into their classrooms and is preparing to bus our kids to their schools, where the law will require them to be placed without discrimination into a broad spectrum of activities such as athletics, co- and extracurricular activities, clubs and social activities," Dawson said. "JTASD will have full responsibility for the custody of YSA kids from school bus pick up to return, including any liability for behavior. YSA is far more experienced with security for our kids and providing custody services. We believe our kids belong in our school and that JTASD should provide the same support for our kids as they do their own, as they are legally obligated to do."He said the school district has "created obstacles and barriers that hold back $98,000 YSA was to receive in state aid, thus helping to precipitate the financial issues that may prevent continued on-site school operation."