President Dr. David Granoff welcomed Andrea Gonzalez, a Rotary Exchange Student, from Venezuela and her host sister, Veronica Bueno, during the August 31 luncheon meeting. Gonzalez arrived on August 21 and is attending Oswego High School.
Head Start is a preschool program for children 3 and 4 years of age. Head Start accepts applications throughout the year, for more information call 598-4711.
Meet the new face of the Fulton City School District.
He’s strong, proud and athletic. He’s a member of the Onondaga Nation and he walked on the land when it was little more than trees and a lake.
The proposed new logo for the school district’s athletic teams and high school made its first public appearance Tuesday night before the Board of Education.
A move to reduce the number of administrators in the district by four came back to the table at Tuesday’s board of education meeting. Just as it did this spring, if failed to get the required support to pass. In other action, the board named a new law firm as the district’s attorney.
Schools across the state want to know when the new federal education aid to hire teachers will show up. In Hannibal, the Superintendent of Schools worries it won’t show up in time to hire teachers before school begins, and even if it does, the district may end up laying off those teachers next year.
The state’s sudden change in scoring its statewide grades 3 through 8 tests dealt a cruel blow to some students and possibly a very expensive blow to school districts, including Fulton. Hundreds of students who had scored as proficient in math or English found themselves in the not-proficient category after the tests were rescored. And that could cost the district money it doesn’t have to help those students.
SUNY Oswego’s living laboratory will play host in August to a teacher-training effort to deliver lessons of energy stewardship to young schoolchildren.
Wallace “Wally” Reardon, a May graduate of SUNY Oswego, will receive a national award for a tower climber safety project he began in college and has continued this summer with Upstate Medical University’s Occupational Health Clinical Center.
SUNY Oswego’s new interdisciplinary minor in audio design and production aims to meet student and industry demand while broadening opportunities for students.
Oswego County and the counties of New York State got some help Wednesday paying for rising Medicaid costs. The U.S. Senate approved a $26 billion plan, most of which will pour money into a Medicare fund. The county and all of its school districts will get money from this bill, though it’s not certain what schools will be able to do with the money.
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