RaiderNet Daily: To Fulton from Switzerland
A former foreign exchange student shows off her Raider pride. Also, big wins for girls soccer and volleyball.
A former foreign exchange student shows off her Raider pride. Also, big wins for girls soccer and volleyball.
We got some rain – if ya wanna call 0.01-inch ‘rain’ – on Tuesday Let’s see if we are as lucky today.
You could be forgiven for looking at the scores Fulton students earned on state standard tests and concluding that student performance is dropping fast. After all, in 2009, 69% of Fulton 3rd graders were judged to be proficient at the state standard for English Language Arts. In 2011, just 47% were proficient.
“Does that mean that suddenly, we’ve forgotten how to teach?” asked Board of Education member Brian Hotaling.
After hearing an update on the Race To The Top initiative for nearly an hour Tuesday night, members of the Oswego City School District’s board of education agreed with the plan in principle. However, the part about pulling educators out of the classroom to be trained didn’t sit well with the board.
There’s no Pep band this year and today, we learn why. Also today, a first win for the golf squad, while the girls’ tennis team is still hunting a first win.
Yesterday was pretty nice – Grab an umbrella later today
“While there is less EEE activity around the county since we conducted aerial spraying, the virus is still present at our test sites,” said Dr. Dennis Norfleet, public health director of the Oswego County Health Department.

The fall semester isn’t a month old yet and already some westside Oswego residents are fed up with the rowdy late-night behavior of some SUNY Oswego students. Speaking at the public session of Monday’s Common Council meeting, two residents asked the council to give the police department whatever it needed to put an end to the bad behavior.
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