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Discover the Fascinating History of New York’s Oldest High School
My 91-year-old mom has shared many stories of her life and what it was like when she was a child growing up in the 1930's and 1940's. The fact that she attended school, for example, in a one-room schoolhouse is incredible. Students of multiple grades learning side-by-side in one small room.
North country HS sports scoreboard: Monday, October 7, 2024
There was plenty of sports action across Northern New York high schools in the first full weekend of October. We saw games in football, soccer, volleyball and swimming meets as well. Let’s a look at the north country sports scoreboard from over the weekend. High school football Bishop Grimes 48, Thousand Islands 22 (Saturday) Gouverneur […]
Some children tied to N.Y. nurse’s fake vaccine scheme are barred from school
NEW YORK (AP) — A suburban New York school district has barred patients of a former nurse practitioner who pleaded guilty to running a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination card scheme. The move by school officials in the Long Island hamlet of Plainedge comes nearly three years after Julie DeVuono, the...
NY State Ed’s pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We’ll stop tracking it
For years now, we’ve been slamming the State Education Department and its rulers, the state Board of Regents, as having turned against anything resembling excellence, but we’re still shocked at SED’s latest move. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli just issued a blaring alarm about how truancy soared in New York schools in the wake of the pandemic, and remains insanely high. SED’s “solution”: Hide the data. DiNapoli found that nearly a third of Empire State students are chronically truant — up sharply in the wake of all those school shutdowns and farcical “remote learning.” The K-12 rate of chronic absenteeism hit 29.1%...
New York Child Care Providers are Bleeding Workers
More than childcare providers across every county of New York were beneficiaries of the billions of federal dollars that President Joe Biden’s pandemic relief package injected into the industry. Childcare providers reported using the money to cover rent or pay worker wages, sustaining care for about 676,000 kids in the state. “That helped us keep the doors open,” said Victor Vargas, […]
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