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A charter school has designed a modern high school from scratch, rethinking everything from bathrooms to stairwells. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
Without bathroom doors or cafeteria walls, KIPP is building a new high school from scratch
A charter school has designed a modern high school from scratch, rethinking everything from bathrooms to stairwells.
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June 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A charter school has designed a modern high school from scratch, rethinking everything from bathrooms to stairwells. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
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The state Education Department offered Thursday to ban all school mascots that are connected to any racial or ethnic group, in response to an effort from the federal government to overturn the ban on mascots depicting Indigenous Peoples. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
To keep Indigenous Peoples mascot ban, NY offers to ban many more mascots
The state Education Department offered Thursday to ban all school mascots that are connected to any racial or ethnic group.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The state Education Department offered Thursday to ban all school mascots that are connected to any racial or ethnic group, in response to an effort from the federal government to overturn the ban on mascots depicting Indigenous Peoples. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
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Most school districts currently offer 15 minutes or less, according to New York State United Teachers. Around 40% of districts have cut back or eliminated recess in recent years, according to the union. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
New York teachers' union demands longer recess time for youngest students
Teachers are demanding that children receive 30 minutes of unstructured play time during the elementary school day, after years of cutbacks.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Most school districts currently offer 15 minutes or less, according to New York State United Teachers. Around 40% of districts have cut back or eliminated recess in recent years, according to the union. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
@starscape15.bsky.social I’m a newspaper reporter in Albany, NY trying to find students who have been falsely accused of using AI on schoolwork…want to talk?
May 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@starscape15.bsky.social I’m a newspaper reporter in Albany, NY trying to find students who have been falsely accused of using AI on schoolwork…want to talk?
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Early morning voters in Albany County had to vote using emergency ballots Tuesday after voter sign-in software and ballot machines failed. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
School budget voters met with broken machines, inoperative software
Early morning voters in Albany County had to use emergency ballots Tuesday after voter sign-in software and ballot machines failed.
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May 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Early morning voters in Albany County had to vote using emergency ballots Tuesday after voter sign-in software and ballot machines failed. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
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For a couple dozen students, walking across the stage at University at Albany, Russell Sage College and Siena College was a triumph over statistics that predicted their failure. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
College of Saint Rose closed, but these students graduated on time
A couple dozen local students beat the odds and graduated on time after the College of Saint Rose closed at the end of their junior year.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For a couple dozen students, walking across the stage at University at Albany, Russell Sage College and Siena College was a triumph over statistics that predicted their failure. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
Other states wait til they know how the child died before doing a report on what went wrong. What is the point in doing a report before knowing that?
After children die, some NY reports wrongly place blame on caregivers www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
After children die, some NY reports wrongly place blame on caregivers www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
After children die, some NY reports wrongly place blame on caregivers
The state Office of Children and Family Services files more than half of its reports on child fatalities without autopsy data, focusing on possible abuse.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Other states wait til they know how the child died before doing a report on what went wrong. What is the point in doing a report before knowing that?
After children die, some NY reports wrongly place blame on caregivers www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
After children die, some NY reports wrongly place blame on caregivers www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
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Funding for small libraries’ literacy programs are now gone, library officials say. A guide for activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US is “paused.” Next on the chopping block: possibly the summer reading program, said NYS Librarian Lauren Moore. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
Libraries' summer reading program in jeopardy due to federal cuts
The New York State Library is canceling grants as it prepares for major cuts in federal funding.
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April 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Funding for small libraries’ literacy programs are now gone, library officials say. A guide for activities to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US is “paused.” Next on the chopping block: possibly the summer reading program, said NYS Librarian Lauren Moore. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
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Students whose tutoring was abruptly ended 3 months before the end of the school year are now being championed by a coalition of 16 attorneys general. The coalition, including NY A.G. Letitia James, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
NY sues to restore tutoring for hundreds of local students
Students whose tutoring was abruptly ended three months before the end of the school year are now being championed by a coalition of 16 attorneys general.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Students whose tutoring was abruptly ended 3 months before the end of the school year are now being championed by a coalition of 16 attorneys general. The coalition, including NY A.G. Letitia James, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration. (📝 @bykathleenmoore.bsky.social )
Tutors are offering a discounted rate and started a GoFundMe to restore the tutoring canceled by US Ed that I wrote about last week.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-resto...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-resto...
Donate to Help Sylvan Learning restore education funds for NY students, organized by Audrey Waterfield
For more details on the situation, please read this Times Uni… Audrey Waterfield needs your support for Help Sylvan Learning restore education funds for NY students
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April 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Tutors are offering a discounted rate and started a GoFundMe to restore the tutoring canceled by US Ed that I wrote about last week.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-resto...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-resto...
The latest on waste and fraud being removed…for about $3,000 each, tutors helped students grow from kindergarten level reading to second grade in 6 months. They thought they’d get the kids completely caught up by the end of April. Program was canceled Fridat.
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U.S. Education Department cancels tutoring, counseling funds for hundreds of local students
The federal government abruptly canceled funding for tutoring and counseling services for children throughout the country, affecting hundreds of students.
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April 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The latest on waste and fraud being removed…for about $3,000 each, tutors helped students grow from kindergarten level reading to second grade in 6 months. They thought they’d get the kids completely caught up by the end of April. Program was canceled Fridat.
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
Sometimes I feel like I'm on school death watch! Here's the latest sad news about school closings...we've had three in just the last two months. (All are closing at the end of the school year.)
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Board plans to close Rensselaer charter school
The board at Nurses Middle College will vote on Monday to close the public charter school for high school students.
www.timesunion.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sometimes I feel like I'm on school death watch! Here's the latest sad news about school closings...we've had three in just the last two months. (All are closing at the end of the school year.)
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
A 9-year-old with autism has had to attend a general education classroom because his district doesn’t have the type of small-class special education room that he needs. He’s one of many disabled children who wait years for the supports they need to learn in school. www.timesunion.com/education/ar...
A Rotterdam mother's fight to educate her son
The fourth grader attends Schalmont schools in Rotterdam and has been placed in a small windowless room for class.
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December 11, 2024 at 4:17 PM
A 9-year-old with autism has had to attend a general education classroom because his district doesn’t have the type of small-class special education room that he needs. He’s one of many disabled children who wait years for the supports they need to learn in school. www.timesunion.com/education/ar...