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The Daily Gazette
April 22, 2018
Mont Pleasant Middle school went from 31 students in first quarter missing between 11 and 19 days to nearly 80 students in second quarter. The attendance page of the district's quarterly report on student academics, behavior and attendance is stamped with “Priority” in bold red letters. High school officialsÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 12, 2018
But the district's four red schools – Martin Luther King and Pleasant Valley elementary schools, Mont Pleasant Middle School and Schenectady High School – get nearly $120 per student, under the budget. The rest of the district's schools – eight schools that fall into the district's orange and yellow needÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 11, 2018
But the district's four red schools – Martin Luther King and Pleasant Valley elementary schools, Mont Pleasant Middle School and Schenectady High School – get nearly $120 per student, under the budget. The rest of the district's schools – eight schools that fall into the district's orange and yellow needÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 9, 2018
In Schenectady schools, fifth-graders at Woodlawn Elementary and sixth-graders at Mont Pleasant Middle School will take their ELA tests on computers, district spokeswoman Karen Corona said. Students in fifth through eighth grades at Mohonasen will take computer tests for ELA, but none of the district'sÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 9, 2018
In Schenectady schools, fifth-graders at Woodlawn Elementary and sixth-graders at Mont Pleasant Middle School will take their ELA tests on computers, district spokeswoman Karen Corona said. Students in fifth through eighth grades at Mohonasen will take computer tests for ELA, but none of the district'sÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
April 9, 2018
In Schenectady schools, fifth-graders at Woodlawn Elementary and sixth-graders at Mont Pleasant Middle School will take their ELA tests on computers, district spokeswoman Karen Corona said. Students in fifth through eighth grades at Mohonasen will take computer tests for ELA, but none of the district'sÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
March 21, 2018
The car drove through a glass window at the school at around 12:30 a.m. and came to rest inside a classroom. Tirado.jpg. Pictured: Estevon Tirado, 22, of Schenectady. A note on the school district's website stated King is closed due to a vehicle accident. Staff were directed to Mont Pleasant Middle School.
The Daily Gazette
February 28, 2018
In his Feb. 21 letter, George S. Van Schaick was “amazed by the ignorance” of the author of an earlier letter criticizing President Trump's immigration policy, and he cited census data in support of his criticism of the letter writer stating that 21.6 percent of U.S. residents “speak no English at home.” The censusÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
February 28, 2018
A visitor at Mont Pleasant Middle School enters through a front door recently. Photographer: MARC SCHULTZ. Armed teachers or even an armed security guard at the door of a school will not stop a deranged gunman. In the recent case, the expelled student would have known who and where the armedÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
February 19, 2018
In the never-ending push to make schools safer, local districts in recent years have turned to capital projects and special technology money to add new security layers at school entrances. Local districts have expanded use of cameras and have used capital projects to upgrade school entrances into spacesÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
February 4, 2018
A student's mother is facing charges after she threatened to "blow that school up" and go the next day with "guns a blazing," according to police. The threats, made by phone, resulted in both Mont Pleasant Middle School and Paige Elementary School being placed on lock out on Jan. 25 and the followingÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
January 17, 2018
The initial search for Gilmore prompted multiple city schools to be placed on lockout, including Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School and Mont Pleasant Middle School. "Everything about what he did in this incident and his history is about avoiding responsibility for his actions," Prosecutor Kyle Petit said laterÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
January 14, 2018
Puerto Rican migrants have filtered across the country, moving in with family and friends in areas where earlier waves of the island's growing diaspora had settled. Lyz Baretty, who has two kids at Pleasant Valley Elementary in Schenectady and one at Mont Pleasant Middle School, also in Schenectady,Ãâà...
The Daily Gazette
January 11, 2018
SCHENECTADY — The city school district will need $6.8 million just to offer students the same level of services next year as they got this year, according to preliminary budget figures presented Wednesday to the school board. That amounts to a 2.7 percent increase in spending, compared with the currentÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
January 8, 2018
In Schenectady, students, parents and advisers from Mont Pleasant Middle School helped deliver 2,300 cans of food, as well as vegetables, pasta, rice and other items, to 20 local families last month as part of the Student Council's annual food drive. The students organized the entire effort and with the helpÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
January 1, 2018
At Mont Pleasant Middle School, for example, administrators registered 941 conduct violations in the first quarter of last school year. That dropped to just under 400 incidents for the first quarter of this school year. School leaders at Mont Pleasant attribute the improved numbers to an increase in activities andÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
December 22, 2017
“I would like to tell the students I'm very appreciative of everything they've done,” said Jackie Gentry, who has a seventh-grade son at Mont Pleasant Middle School and has lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years. Her house was one of the first stops of the day. “They need more programs like thisÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
September 8, 2017
A group of four 11-year-old boys sprawled out around a large blank sheet of paper on the floor in Cara Renzi's sixth-grade class at Oneida Middle School. The students, who went to four different schools last year and had never met before Thursday, bantered back and forth as they spelled out examples ofÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
August 31, 2017
“These kids have these powerful stories, they move me,” said Dodway, who said she saw Schenectady students' potential first hand while student teaching at Mont Pleasant Middle School. “When I form a relationship with them and can see their growth, these kids didn't think they could do it, and when theyÃâà...
Albany Times Union
March 20, 2015
Police work the scene of a shooting on Main Avenue just down the street from Mont Pleasant Middle School in Schenectady on Friday, March 20, 2015. ... For the second time in less than 18 months, police are probing a gun battle between two vehicles that ended outside Mont Pleasant Middle School.
The Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
But the district's four red schools – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pleasant Valley elementary schools, Mont Pleasant Middle School and Schenectady High School – get nearly $120 per student with this budget. The rest of the district's schools – eight that fall into the district's orange and yellow needÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
But the district's four red schools – Martin Luther King and Pleasant Valley elementary schools, Mont Pleasant Middle School and Schenectady High School – get nearly $120 per student, under the budget. The rest of the district's schools – eight schools that fall into the district's orange and yellow needÃâà...
The Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
But the district's four red schools – Martin Luther King and Pleasant Valley elementary schools, Mont Pleasant Middle School and Schenectady High School – get nearly $120 per student, under the budget. The rest of the district's schools – eight schools that fall into the district's orange and yellow needÃâà...
WAMC
December 31, 1999
The four red schools – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pleasant Valley elementary schools, Mont Pleasant Middle School and Schenectady High School – will receive almost $120 per student. The district's final eight schools that fall into the orange and yellow categories will receive up to $110 per student.
