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.
Fulton voters go back to the polls today to decide the fate of the school’s budget for the 2010-11 year.
They’ll decide a $60.7 million budget. It’s about $132,000 smaller than the budget voters defeated by just 7 votes in May. It raises the tax levy 1.79%.
Hannibal’s Superintendent of Schools delivered a long and detailed answer to a simple question: Will Hannibal have JV sports this fall? The short answer is “no”, but the full answer involves balancing the district’s policies and goals against its shrinking resources. Mike DiFabio invited his audience to walk a mile in his shoes and see how he made a difficult decision.
Chaperones on a Hannibal senior class trip to an Ohio amusement park say they were drawing up plans for dealing with a future emergency even as they were riding out a tornado watch in the basement of a resort hotel that didn’t appear to have much of a plan of its own.
But the parent of one student says she wants a written apology from the chaperones for leaving her son and several other students in their rooms during the tornado watch, when nearly the entire hotel had been evacuated to the hotel’s basement. […]
A disappointed Fulton Board of Education proposed a new 2010-11 budget that cuts a lean budget a little more deeply.
Voters shot down a $60.8 million budget earlier this month by just 7 votes.
Tuesday night, the board reviewed some fresh cuts made to the budget in hopes of winning enough votes to secure passage in June. […]
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