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The Daily Gazette
April 26, 2018
Residents can speak at Schenectady City Council meetings, as long as they don't criticize any members of the council. ... shooter drill, far more than the amount of time students have spent not in class to protest the fact that children have to spend 14 hours of their lives preparing to be hunted in their schools.
The Daily Gazette
April 25, 2018
He hopes it will lead public schools to teach students about opportunities in the construction industry. “That's how we create growth,” Rubin said. Those interested in participating in the program can visit the SUNY College and Career Counseling Center on the first floor of Center City at 433 State St. TheyÃâà...
Albany Times Union
April 19, 2018
Transfinder CEO Antonio Civitella, left, presents the company's Ambassador of the Year award to Schenectady City School District Superintendent Larry Spring ... "Schenectady City Schools is what officially made Transfinder a company, because it was our first client," Transfinder CEO Antonio Civitella said.
alloveralbany
April 19, 2018
Schenectady High School students will bus to Niskayuna High School on Friday to take part in a walkout and gun control rally. [Gazette]. Drivers Licenses for immigrants. State lawmakers and advocates for immigrant communities rallied at the Capitol on Wednesday to push to allow drivers licenses forÃâà...
School Transportation News
April 18, 2018
“It is the school system I attended from the time my family arrived in this country from Italy when I was 9 all the way through high school. “Schenectady City Schools is what officially made Transfinder a company, because it was our first client. I always talk about the importance of that first client, when you goÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 18, 2018
Rose was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and followed his father into the U.S. Army right after graduating from high school in 1979. He also studied ... "I carry one of those kits now in all my cars," said Town Councilman James Pavoldi, a retired Schenectady city firefighter who is organizing the class. "I knowÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 17, 2018
Students in local schools will continue to press for gun control and improved school safety through another round of walkouts and rallies scheduled for Friday. ... A pair of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – the site of the February shooting that sparked a nationwide student movementÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 17, 2018
Eric Ely of Concord, N.C., currently a teacher at Cox Mill High in Cabarrus County Schools in North Carolina, after working as a management consultant; superintendent of Southbridge, Mass., schools and Schenectady City, N.Y., schools. He also has been a high school principal in Dover, N.H, andÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 17, 2018
Eric Ely of Concord, N.C., currently a teacher at Cox Mill High in Cabarrus County Schools in North Carolina, after working as a management consultant; superintendent of Southbridge, Mass., schools and Schenectady City, N.Y., schools. He also has been a high school principal in Dover, N.H, andÃâà...
Albany Times Union
April 6, 2018
The law enforcement agency's relationship with local school districts began with the schools opening up small offices, at no cost to the districts. When Lake George Central School district implemented the plan in 2013, High School Principal Francis Cocozza said it was working well. "It's really encouragingÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 4, 2018
The increases will give schools more money to work with than earlier forecasts, which were crafted under the anticipation of a tough budget year. But the ... Schenectady City School District officials at recent school board meetings have discussed investments made last year to establish a general educationÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 2, 2018
The increases will give schools more money to work with than earlier forecasts, which were crafted under the anticipation of a tough budget year. But the ... Schenectady City School District officials at recent school board meetings have discussed investments made last year to establish a general educationÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 30, 2018
The Schenectady City School District board voted 6-1 Wednesday night to strip a requirement from the district's policy manual that stipulated the schools superintendent must live within the district. The residency requirement, which also applied to certain other district officials, had been effectively ignored,Ãâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 29, 2018
SCHENECTADY — City Councilman John Mootooveren pleaded not guilty to a harassment charge Thursday. Mootooveren .... "Our goal is to have every student registered to vote before they graduate from high school." ... A clerk there said vote registration packages are currently going out to high schools.
The Daily Gazette
March 22, 2018
The Schenectady County Public Library (SCPL) and Friends of SCPL are iconic institutions in the area's educational and cultural life. I'm delighted that they are supporting The Reading Is Fun Program (RIF)'s first annual Grand Reading Jamboree, to be held in the historic Proctors Theatre complex, donatedÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 20, 2018
SCHENECTADY -- Firefighters quickly extinguished a structure fire on Hamilton Street Tuesday afternoon. Fire Chief Ray Senecal said the fire appeared to have started in the backyard of a residence at 627 Hamilton before spreading to the building itself. No one was home at the time of the fire, and thereÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 20, 2018
SCHENECTADY -- More than $1 million has been raised through donations and from state grants to help pay for the new Mont Pleasant branch of the Schenectady County Library System, county officials announced Tuesday. That figure was the stated fundraising goal when the County Legislature last yearÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 6, 2018
But other schools still had a healthy cushion before running up against scheduling challenges. In Scotia-Glenville schools, the annual calendar schedules 186 instruction days; with three snow days used so far this winter, the district still has three days it can use to close school for weather or an emergency.
Albany Times Union
February 20, 2018
The number of students enrolled in Maryland's public schools continues to rise, and it has led to a need for more learning space. Local school leaders made their way Wednesday to Annapolis as a part of what has been tagged as the "beg-a-thon." the yearly pitch for school construction funding was movedÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
February 18, 2018
But despite the spending boost, officials increased class sizes at all elementary schools, diminished scheduling flexibility for older students, halved the number of sites that taught English as a second language, eliminated dozens of teachers aids, shuttered the Blodgett preschool center and slashedÃâà...
WNYT
February 15, 2018
School districts in the Capital Region are looking at their active shooter policies after Wednesday's mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. ... Schenectady City School District's Superintendent said the school reviewed its active shooter policies and is not recommending any changes at this time.
Albany Times Union (blog)
February 14, 2018
Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara's 6th Annual Valentines For Vets program kicks-off at Hamilton Elementary School in the Schenectady City School District ... Each year students from a number of local schools deliver hundreds of special Valentines Day cards with 'thank you' messages to our veterans.
The Daily Gazette
February 6, 2018
The governor's proposal — which has the support of The Education Trust-New York, which advocates for funding equity — aims to pressure districts to ensure money is focused on districts' most needy schools. All districts, beginning next school year, will be required to publish school-by-school spendingÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
February 5, 2018
Oneida Middle School eighth-graders (from left) Moses Grant, Xavier Colon and Will Reid, as well as Brian Ledbetter. ... funds the position of Brian Ledbetter, a former Schenectady High School basketball star who works out of Oneida Middle School and is the district's point person in the mentors program.
The Daily Gazette
January 31, 2018
It would require large districts that receive at least half of their revenue from the state to show they are allocating money to the neediest schools before ... Schenectady City School District, which relies on the state for more than half its operating revenue, would fall under the new requirement, if it wereÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
January 9, 2018
Przybylo had his greatest success in Schenectady, where his 1969-70 Linton team finished 22-0 and ranked No. 1 in the state, and his Blue Devils put together a 46-game win streak from 1959-61. Schenectady High School was build on the land once occupied by Linton. "There's a lot of tradition and historyÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
November 13, 2017
ALBANY — The Schenectady City School District was one of six statewide to provide students and staff with a school climate survey last year, part of an effort to ... Schenectady schools Superintendent Larry Spring spoke Monday before the Board of Regents, as the board was garnering updated informationÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
September 28, 2017
While the high school had hosted small college fairs, mostly consisting of local schools, last year it started running a pair of larger events, hoping to attract as many schools as possible. Organized through the Capital Area School Development Association, Schenectady High hosts the fall fair for juniors andÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
September 17, 2017
And across the Schenectady City School District, 12 percent of students were proficient on the state math tests — down 2 percentage points from the year ... The single-digit math proficiency scores at Lincoln and MLK — as well as at Van Corlaer and Yates elementary schools — aren't the only troublingÃâà...
WNYT
July 11, 2017
Pleasant Middle School teacher Brian Spivey. “So they go coming out maybe on third grade level and then they just slide and then it's hard to get them back up.” Alice Poulopoulous, who just finished the third grade as well, will get to brush up on writing during the summer program. It is her favorite subject.
The Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
As a Sage graduate student working to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner, 2004 Schenectady High School graduate Anna Brady ran into a friend working as a school psychologist in the Schenectady City School District. The district should hire a nurse practitioner, she suggested to her friend, onlyÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
... County Public Health Services is seeking volunteers to assist with an emergency preparedness drill on April 3 at Schenectady High School. Volunteers ... police and fire departments, the Schenectady City School District, Ellis Hospital, Schenectady ARC, Sunnyview Hospital, Capital Care Medical Group,Ãâà...
NEWS10 ABC
December 31, 1999
... (NEWS10) – Schenectady County officials are looking for volunteers for a preparedness drill being held at the Schenectady High School next month. ... Capital Care Medical Group, Schenectady County Auxiliary Police, Schenectady County Medical Reserve Corps, Schenectady City Fire Hazmat, andÃâà...
