Voters are going the polls and speaking out about their school budgets. The polls opened Tuesday morning, and they close at various times Tuesday night, depending on the district.

Voters are deciding the fate of the proposed 2012-2013 budgets.

This year, many school budgets are calling for deep cuts in spending, programs and staff.

Protesters gathered in Averill Park Monday afternoon. It was a last minute push to get Averill Park's budget passed.

The proposed budget would slash 30 jobs, cut programs, increase class size, and it includes a 3. 95 percent tax levy increase but some residents say a contingency budget would be much worse.

Budget cuts are also on the line in Bethlehem. That district is proposing to cut 57 jobs and raise the tax levy by 3.99 percent.

Dr. Paul Singh is performing gastric bypass surgery at Albany Medical Center a procedure he's done countless times.

He'll re-route the patient's digestive system and create a smaller stomach pouch; resulting in dramatic weight loss over the next few months.

But almost immediately after surgery - and for reasons that aren't completely clear, if the patient has type 2 diabetes it will disappear - they'll be cured.

It may be because after the surgery food bypasses the first part of the intestine, the duodenum.

“There are thoughts that hormones released through the duodenum make diabetes worse or problematic,” says Dr. Paul Singh.

The results, based on a study appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, are so impressive, 58 year old Mark French decided to have the surgery. He's the patient Dr. Singh was operating on.