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Numbers Show Reading Program Works, And That Cutting Program Hurts

Reading First helps students learn to read. And when you start to cut Reading First, it doesn’t work so well anymore.

That’s the short version of a presentation on the reading program used in Hannibal’s elementary schools to raise reading scores. It was a key component of the successful effort to get Hannibal off the state’s “in need of improvement” list.

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Hannibal Board Rejects Contract Extension for Superintendent

Here’s a rare thing: A Board of Education rejecting a contract extension for the Superintendent of Schools.  That’s what happened in Hannibal, and it may mean the end of Superintendent Mike DiFabio’s tenure at the end of the next school year.  Some of the reasons for the tension between administration and some board members was on display at a meeting Wednesday night.

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Hannibal Budget Hearing Focuses on Cost of Contracts

District business official Nancy Henner runs through the  information in the budget public hearing, as Superintendent of Schools  Mike DiFabio looks on.Hannibal’s budget eliminates or downsizes 15 positions and raises the tax levy 2.99% in a year in which Gov. Paterson’s across-the-board education aid cuts will drain more than a million dollars from Hannibal. It cuts into the Reading First program credited with helping get the district off the state’s “in need of improvement” list, eliminates band for 5th graders and preserves varsity and modified sports.

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