A 7th grader holds her cell phone camera at arm’s length. She strikes a provocative pose. She clicks the shutter button. Moments later, that photo is on its way to her 7th grade boyfriend.
Cell phones make it easy to take and send such photos. They also make it easy to forward those photos to hundreds of other people.
Students from Volney Elementary School’s orchestra this week presented a mini-concert to members of the Fulton Board of Education.
They came to remind people that it’s Music In Our Schools month, the month when school bands, orchestras and choruses put on performances to highlight their achievements.
The Board of Education Tuesday night reviewed the first official draft of the budget for 2010-2011. It is the product of months of work, including several public work sessions by a committee of administrators, board members and members of the public.
The students asked for family and friends to pledge money for the amount of pages they read in class during one week.
Fourth-grade students in Oswego’s Kingsford Park Elementary are learning about art, community history and other subjects in the first Adopt-a-School partnership for SUNY Oswego’s School of Communication, Media and the Arts.
The state Board of Regents today may eliminate 13 of 16 Regents exams and end translations into any foreign language other than Spanish.
The only exams left would be one exam each in math, English and science. Exams would be given only once a year. The January and August exams would be eliminated.
Oswego Board of Education member Fran Hoefer was escorted by police from a school board meeting in Middletown, New York Thursday night and was held in jail briefly, according to a report in the Middletown Times Herald-Record.
The school district’s superintendent is Ken Eastwood, who battled often with Hoefer when Eastwood was Superintendent of the Oswego City School District.
The children in Phoenix 1 Head Start Preschool Class at Discovery Day Care learned about Western Africa and what a typical snack would be.
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