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You can be a presenter at NYSSBA’s 91st Annual Convention
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
Is your school district doing something distinctive or noteworthy that could help other school boards and superintendents govern their districts more effectively, efficiently and economically? If so, NYSSBA invites you to share your knowledge and expertise with your counterparts throughout the state at NYSSBA’s 91st Annual Convention and Educational Trade Show.
Seminars will be conducted on Thursday, Oct. 21, Friday, Oct. 22, and Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in New York City. |
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Paterson’s cuts loom large for districts
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Paul Heiser
Research Analyst
Ninety-nine percent of school districts in New York State would see state aid cuts in the 2010-11 school year under Gov. David Paterson’s proposed state budget, according to a NYSSBA analysis. Only seven of the state’s 679 districts would be unharmed.
Under Paterson’s executive budget proposal, school cuts average 6.7 percent statewide and range as high as 24.5 percent.
NYSSBA has shared its analysis with legislators. |
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Silver: Schools should expect an aid cut
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Marc Humbert
Senior Writer
The state Legislature’s most powerful Democrat, long a defender of robust aid for New York’s schools, says districts should prepare for a reduction in state assistance this year.
“I think the economic necessities and the lack of revenue in the state of New York is going to require some trimming,” state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told On Board during a wide-ranging interview in his state Capitol office on Feb. 1.
“It’s not going to be the usual increase the Legislature does above last year’s base,” he said. |
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A call to action
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Tim Kremer
Executive Director
The word out of Washington is that when the federal No Child Left Behind Act is reauthorized, the Obama administration would like Congress to make sweeping changes to make it look more like Race to the Top.
President Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan want to base core forms of federal education funding on the same kind of metrics used in the Race to the Top. Under their plan, a portion of federal funding might no longer be based on longstanding formulas that take into account the number of students in a district. Instead, funding would be based on competitive grants that reward innovation and academic progress. And schools may not be judged anymore based on adequate yearly progress on student tests but rather on a new performance measure. |
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Governor restores aid, but lawsuit continues
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Eric D. Randall
Editor-in-Chief
If Gov. David Paterson withholds school aid payments a second time, he will have to explain his actions to a judge. NYSSBA and other education groups are continuing a lawsuit that contends such actions are unlawful.
In December, Paterson withheld $146 million in school aid and $436 in STAR payments, saying the checks might bounce. |
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Paterson: Budget gap grows by 10 percent
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Marc Humbert
Senior Writer
The potential budget gap facing state government leaders is about 10 percent higher than the $7.4 billion Gov. David Paterson estimated when he unveiled his proposed $134 billion, 2010-11 spending plan on Jan. 19, he announced on Feb. 3.
Paterson said January personal income tax revenues, especially from Wall Street bonuses, had not come in as robustly as initially predicted and demands on the Medicaid system providing health care to the poor were rising faster than expected. |
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Two-thirds of districts fully committed to RTTT
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Brian M. Butry
Communications Coordinator
Only 66 percent of the state’s 837 school districts and charter schools have committed to implement all or a significant portion of New York’s Race to the Top (RTTT) application, according to the document.
The application – which was submitted to the federal government on Jan. 19 and released to the public by the State Education Department (SED) on Jan. 29 – shows that 550 local education agencies, including 126 charter schools, agreed to participate with no strings attached. |
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Shutting down the school-to-prison pipeline
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Edwin C. Darden
Research shows that a child who has been suspended or expelled is more likely to fall behind in school, be retained a grade, drop out of high school, commit a crime, and become incarcerated as an adult. Critics say many students – often poor and from minority groups – are “pushed” into the criminal justice system in a phenomenon called “the school-to-prison pipeline.”
In studies of the relationship between school discipline and incarceration, school boards are usually cast in the role of the villain. Analysts say students’ downward spirals often begin with school districts’ zero tolerance policies and the suspensions and expulsions they trigger. |
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Targeted after-school math and reading instruction has mixed results
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Paul Heiser
Research Analyst
Structured after-school academic instruction in elementary school produced positive and statistically significant impacts on student achievement in math but not reading, according to the results of a new study commissioned by the U.S. Dept. of Education. |
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Abstinence-only program found effective in study
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| On Board Online • February 8, 2010
By Paul Heiser
Research Analyst
Sex education classes that encourage adolescents to abstain from having sexual intercourse can be an effective way to get many youngsters to delay sexual initiation, according to the results of a new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Previous studies have cast doubts on the effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education. |
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