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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 12:47 pm
Come to think of it, that describes the state of New York pretty well, too.
Ulster County Community College prof Steven Schimmrich, a.k.a. The Hudson Valley Geologist, has detected a glaring basic math error in New York State's formula for community... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 4:16 pm
All children living in a U.S. school district, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to a free public education. So why are New York State school districts requiring parents to show visas, green cards or Social Security numbers to register... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Mystery solved: It was a teenager with a scary-looking BB gun.
Earlier: Unspecified incident has Saugerties school in lockdown.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The Daily Freeman reports the Grant D. Morris elementary school opened again around 10:15 this morning, after being in lockdown in response to, well, something:
[Superintendent Seth] Turner said the lockdown stemmed from an 8:45 a.m. "incident" at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm
Protestations by Kingston superintendent Gerard Gretzinger notwithstanding, it looks like Kingston High School has a cockroach problem. Though it could be worse, the Freeman reports.
Cory Kassler, a senior public health sanitarian for the Ulster County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 3:48 pm
Tonight is the May meeting of the Delhi Central School District Board of Education, which governs a school district that is angrily divided over Delaware Academy High School principal Richard Hughes, who has been accused by some parents of running the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 19, 2010 - 8:26 am
Despite much controversy over school budgets this year -- prompting a massive campaign by the state teachers' union -- yesterday's school election results aren't too revolutionary. (See the Daily Freeman's results chart here, and the Times Herald-Record's... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 10:12 am
This may be the most contentious school budget year in recent memory for many districts around the Catskills region. Today's the day for voting on school budgets and school board members, across the state. Here are a few links for more information on... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 4:13 pm
Seventeen-year-old Larry Nix-Marks was arrested yesterday while on the way to the BOCES school in Port Ewen, for allegedly bringing a machete to, well, some kind of fight:
Capt. Michael Freer of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Nix-Marks, 17... Read more
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