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Lanigan Elementary’s Closed Wing Should Reopen Wednesday

When school resumes on Wednesday, there’ll be big changes at Fulton’s Lanigan Elementary School.

A renovated wing of the building is expected to be open for business. It’s been closed since the beginning of the school year so the former open classrooms could be converted into regular classrooms and a new media center could be created.

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School Budget Situation Goes From Bad To ‘Bleak’

School officials from around the region met in Onondaga County Saturday for a breakfast meeting with their state legislators. At the same time, a publication sent to school board members arrived, containing a commentary from the leader of Democrats in the state Legislature, Sheldon Silver. The message from both was clear: Expect cuts in state aid to schools.

“It’s not a surprise, but it’s rather troubling,” said Fulton Superintendent of Schools Bill Lynch.

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Hannibal School Board Agenda For Tonight’s Meeting

The Board of Education will take up the long-running discussion of a possible land acquisition.  Also tonight: a board member’s desire for a Junior ROTC program will come up, as will a discussion about setting up an educational foundation and a board member’s investigation of a consolidation plan in a nearby county.

You can read the entire Hannibal board agenda here (pdf).

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Little-Known Alternative Location School Program Is Keeping Students From Quitting

Kristina Rathbun works with tutor Ryan Patrick at the district's alternative location program at the Education Center. "It teaches kids that are going to quit school and brings them back to school and teaches them what they need to learn so they can go on with their life," she said about the program.

Kristina Rathbun was going to quit school.  A straight A student whose grades sank because of problems with other students, she thought the only alternative was to leave.  Instead, she landed in a little-known district program for students with poor grades, attendance or behavior.  She and many of the nearly two dozen other students in the program are in the midst of remarkable turnarounds.

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Fulton Board of Education Agenda: Budget, Construction Updates

Fulton’s Board of Education meets tonight.  The board will discuss its budget for next school year, will hear an update on the district-wide construction project, consider approving two new high school courses, and more.

You can read the entire Board of Education meeting agenda at this link (pdf).

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Staff Cuts Almost Inevitable If Fulton School Budget Is To Come Down, Committee Hears

The draft reviewed Tuesday night by a committee of district administrators, Board of Education members and several members of the public raises spending 3.4% but requires a 6.6% increase in the tax levy. That’s down from a 7.8% tax levy increase in the first draft of the budget, reviewed two weeks ago.

Superintendent of Schools Bill Lynch stresses that this is just a draft, and that the increases in the current draft are not acceptable.

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