Schools
State aid held up for Falls school
NIAGARA FALLS — Two years after board members thought the construction of Niagara Street School was complete, they learned some pieces are still waiting on state approval— and it will cost the district as much as $35,408 to fix. (Updated: 05/31/09 10:18 AM )
A preview of school elections in Erie County
This is not what school boards and administrators thought May 19 would feel like this year. (Updated: 05/17/09 7:00 AM )
School budgets, board seats on ballots
BATAVIA — Taxpayers in Genesee County’s eight school districts will get a breather in Tuesday’s elections with spending and tax rates about the same as this year and only one school board contest. Many schools got an assist from federal economic stimulus dollars. (Updated: 05/16/09 7:24 AM )
Voters to weigh transferring students
RIPLEY — Ripley Central School District residents on Tuesday will vote on a plan to contract with surrounding school districts to handle the teaching of ninth-through 12th-graders in the district. (Updated: 05/16/09 7:24 AM )
N. Tonawanda school budget OK’d
NORTH TONAWANDA — The Board of Education voted last week to adopt a proposed budget for the 2009-10 school year that anticipates a slight increase in the property tax levy. (Updated: 04/26/09 7:01 AM )
Draft school budget nudges tax higher
NORTH TONAWANDA — The Board of Education voted last week to adopt a proposed budget for the 2009-10 school year that anticipates a slight increase in the property tax levy. (Updated: 04/26/09 7:01 AM )
Buffalo school closings may delay final phase of rebuilding
The fifth and final phase of Buffalo’s $1 billion school reconstruction project may be delayed a year to 2013 while the Board of Education makes some tough choices about what schools to close and where to locate popular classroom programs. (Updated: 04/18/09 9:02 AM )
Neighbors seek relief from rude students
OLEAN — People who live near Olean High School hope that a discussion held Saturday with school and city officials will bring them relief from chronic traffic congestion, blocked driveways, trespassing and trash. (Updated: 03/29/09 6:56 AM )
2 students on panel support merger
The most intriguing statements of Saturday’s final meeting of the Brocton/ Fredonia District Consolidation Study Committee may have come from two Brocton high school students who are members of the committee. (Updated: 03/29/09 6:56 AM )
Nearly $7,000 taken in break-in
NORTH TONAWANDA — Disappointment was the word North Tonawanda High School Principal James Fisher used Friday in describing an overnight theft earlier in the week of nearly $7,000 that was to be used for a reception for senior girls. (Updated: 03/21/09 7:05 AM )
Plan would let students attend nearby high schools
Ripley Central School District residents will vote May 19 on a proposition that would allow students in grades nine through 12 to attend any of three neighboring schools. (Updated: 03/21/09 7:05 AM )
Benefits for merging of districts highlighted
A group studying the possible merger of Brocton and Fredonia school districts heard Saturday from a nearby district that accomplished a merger more than a decade ago. (Updated: 03/15/09 7:07 AM )
Cutting jobs of four clerks is questioned
NIAGARA FALLS — The Niagara Falls School Board is considering the elimination of four account clerk positions in the district’s business office as of April 1. (Updated: 02/08/09 7:03 AM )
More cuts sought to ease loss of aid
They already imposed a hiring freeze and made cuts to such items as field trips and supplies, and now Clarence school officials are banking on extra savings like early retirements to erase an anticipated $2 million loss in state aid in the coming year’s budget. (Updated: 02/08/09 7:03 AM )
Williams hosts meetings about proposed state aid cuts
Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent James A. Williams will host public meetings Tuesday and Thursday evening to discuss the “drastic” impact proposed state aid cuts could have on the district’s instructional program. (Updated: 01/24/09 6:21 AM )