The superintendent said additional State Aid proposed for 2018/19 school year is approximately $17,000 or as she put it, “pretty much essentially flat.” With a district budget of approximately $52 million, the small increase is expected to have minimal impact. Plus: A pilot for Waterfall Way, bus driver shortage, and the robotics program.
The uptown building, which currently houses school district offices, is being sold to a hotel developer.
Under the governor’s proposal, likely to be upped by the state legislature, the Saugerties schools would see an overall increase in state aid from $22,729,250 in the 2017-18 fiscal year to $22,802,192. In the overall scheme of things, that’s not much.
SUNY Ulster was recently selected as a partner in IBM’s “New Collar Jobs Initiative,” which provides apprenticeships to students for tech jobs that require a significant amount of training but not a four-year degree.
The 2018/19 preliminary Onteora district budget was unveiled, revealing that school officials will have their work cut out for them in trying to keep the budget within the allowable tax cap.
The Saugerties schools’ annual spelling bee was swept by a pair of sixth grade students at Riccardi Elementary School.
Some of the topics discussed include the district’s English as a New Language program, the racial equity initiative, the tragic loss of another student, and new standards.
Drug education never left America’s schools, but it hasn’t been stressed since the days of D.A.R.E. With record numbers of young people in rural areas dying of opiate overdoses, the Highland School District is stressing an all-grades substance abuse education program.
‘Our goal is to have quality assessments that are not 100 questions long, because we’ve seen fabulous examples where I can cover six standards in one question.’
The school district sold its administration building to a hotel developer for $4.25-million. The price was significantly higher than expected and was part of a mini real estate boom in the Uptown section of the city.