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| On Board Online • March 16, 2020 By Eric D. Randall If your school district has to close one or more schools due to the spread of coronavirus in your school community, is your school board prepared to:
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| On Board Online • March 16, 2020 By Eric D. Randall Public school enrollment in New York State is down, dropping at least 5% in most districts since 2007-08. But spending is up. Why? The Office of the State Comptroller answers that question in a new report that is sympathetic to the pressures on school boards and school administrators. |
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Robert S. Schneider Shortly after I became executive director of NYSSBA this year, school districts got sobering news about the state property tax cap. The state comptroller announced the allowable tax levy growth factor will be just 1.81%. My background is in finance, and I know what a struggle it is for governance teams to create a budget every year. In the last two budget cycles, school districts have had to rely on more than $2.1 billion from fund balances. |
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| On Board Online • March 16, 2020 By Cathy Woodruff State officials are considering revising an old label used for a condition shared by roughly 5 percent of students receiving special education services around New York. "Emotional disturbance" was the diagnosis specified for nearly 24,000 students in New York schools in 2017, the most recent year for which figures were available from the State Education Department. |
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| On Board Online • March 16, 2020 By Maille Bowerman There's an epidemic in schools, very real to the students, but all too often hidden from parents, teachers and administrators. Depression, anxiety and mental illness affect more than one in five students. That means in your average classroom of 25 students, five or more students consistently have feelings of sadness, inadequacy, and loneliness that interfere with their daily lives. |
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| On Board Online • March 16, 2020 By Paul Heiser If your school district or BOCES has an early college high school, chances are it's giving the community a lot of bang for the buck. Students who attend early college high schools tend to graduate and go on to postsecondary education at higher rates and earn more money than their peers who d |
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| On Board Online • February 24, 2020 By Merri Rosenberg Disturbing incidents of anti-Semitism have been on the rise, including a knife attack on celebrants at a rabbi's house in Monsey (Rockland County) during the Hanukkah holiday in December. Swastikas have been discovered in five school districts in Westchester County - New Rochelle, Pelham, Scarsdale, Pleasantville and Ossining. |
| On Board Online • February 24, 2020 By Eric D. Randall Schools do not to need to take any special precautionary actions regarding the new coronavirus besides encouraging good hygiene such as hand-washing and covering one's mouth when coughing or sneezing, according to a new state advisory sent to school adminstrators. |
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Fred Langstaff How do you feel when you get a birthday card in the mail? Or an annual holiday letter? Or a personal note from a faraway relative? In an era dominated by email, texts and other electronic forms of communication, my wife Debby and I cheer when we discover the occasional old-fashioned letter in our home mailbox. We can spot one of these rare treasures quickly: handwritten address, colorful stamp in the upper right corner and, of course, a ZIP code. |
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| On Board Online • February 24, 2020 By Julie Davis Lutz The lack of diversity among teachers and other school personnel has been getting more attention in New York State. A draft report presented to the state Board of Regents in November found that 200 of the state's 700 school districts do not employ a single teacher of color. Nationally and statewide, about eight in 10 teachers are white (and predominantly female). |
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