SUNY Oswego students Harry Kandaras (standing) and Justin D'Antonio (second from left) work with high school sophomores Zachary Cronk (left) and Brandon Dobbs in an alternative learning initiative in Wilber Hall. The CARE program, a partnership of the college and CiTi, is designed to help students who are disengaged in traditional high school settings earn credits toward their diplomas.
Oswego Daily News

New Partnership Maps Alternative Routes To High School Diplomas

Nestled in a bright, open room in Wilber Hall’s lower level, the CARE — Credit Accrual and Recovery for Everyone — program hosts 11 students in grades 9 to 12 who work one-on-one with a CiTi teacher, School of Education faculty members and students from around campus. The goal is to rekindle a fire for learning in the high schoolers that had dimmed due to impediments to success in a traditional setting.

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Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay

Infrastructure, Veterans Equality, Decrease State Mandates all Need to be Priorities in 2016-17 Budget

With less than a month to go before the April 1 state budget deadline, state legislators, party conferences, interest groups and other constituencies are making a final push to influence what is included in this year’s state budget. Topics like a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave and so-called ethics reform have dominated state news.

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