Less than a month after announcing an impasse, leaders from two Jewish day schools were back at the bargaining table, trying to resolve their outstanding differences.

Jay Leberman, head of Perelman Jewish Day School, had lobbied for years to retain Saligman Middle School, which he helped found, as a separate entity. But in the midst of mounting pressure to merge the city's two Jewish middle schools, he's had a change of heart and released a proposal for a unified day school system.