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SU dome director: It would be ‘unrealistic’ to get everyone out in 45 minutes
The man in charge of the dome at Syracuse University said it would be “unrealistic” to get everyone out of a big game or concert in 45 minutes. A recent traffic study requested by Syracuse city police suggested 45 minutes instead of 2 hours as a goal. City officials said they were up for the challenge.
NewsChannel 9 investigates the cost of school threats
In the 2022 - 2023 school year, the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office responded to or assisted with 41 threats at schools. That number dropped to 29 threats last year. But the trend may be going back up. In the first month of this school year, OCSO has already responded to eight threats.
NYSUT passes resolution on cellphones in schools
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)— New York State United Teachers recently passed a resolution regarding cellphones in school. The union supports a statewide policy requiring what it’s calling a “bell to bell” restriction of students using personal devices such as cellphones, smartwatches, and earbuds. Jaime Ciffone, Executive Vice President of NYSUT explained why. “It’s really in favor […]
Cursive Writing Coming Back to New York Schools?
Should all schools in New York start teaching kids to write in cursive again?. If you were born in a year before 2000 you probably remember having to learn how to write in cursive during your school days. The once popular form of writing was once a required skill that all kids had to learn in order to move up to the next grade.
Here are the top 20 colleges in New York state, according to U.S. News & World Report ranking
There are many reasons to choose a college, such as location, graduation rate, borrower debt and student-faculty ratio — all factors that were included to rank colleges and universities in the recently released U.S. News and World Report 2025 Best Colleges guide. The outlet ranked nearly 1,500 four-year bachelor’s...
North country HS sports scoreboard: Monday, September 30, 2024
There was plenty of action in Northern New York high school sports over the weekend. We saw games played in football, soccer, volleyball and swimming. Here’s a check of the scoreboard from the north country this weekend. High school football Malone 14, St. Lawrence Central 12 (Saturday) Sandy Creek 61, Pulaski 8 (Saturday) Holland Patent […]
As NY District Implements Science of Reading, Parents Push for New Focus on Math
One of New York’s largest school districts has grappled with a long list of challenges, including a revolving door of eight superintendents in the last decade and an enrollment drop of 15,000 students since 1998. But the Rochester City School District, which teaches more than 20,700 students in upstate New York, is focusing on what […]
Steven Brill Has Learned Nothing
The author who once dismissed “school reform deniers” has decided they were right all along. A couple weeks ago, Obama-era “school reform” superfan Steven Brill resurfaced. In an interview with The 74, the journalist popped up after a decade to blithely disown the dogma on the magic of teacher evaluation and charter schools that he’d once championed, in favor of current progressive dogma on the failings of school choice. Brill, author of the influential 2011 Simon & Schuster book Class Warfare, was part of the cast of star-struck, left-leaning media types who made celebrities out of big-city superintendents and the architects of Race to the Top.
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