A group of Albany High students recently got to experience college life in a chemistry classroom at Skidmore. Here’s an account of the event from college spokeswoman Andrea Wise. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Albany High School chemistry teacher Troy Gale brought 56 of his Honors and Advanced Placement chemistry students to Skidmore College April 19 [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany teacher absences
A new Albany district found that all of its schools are having problems with teacher absences. Here is today’s story. Every Albany school has teacher absentee issues, according to the report. The district spent more than $ 2 million on employee substitutes in the 2010-11 school year, double the $ 1 million it spent just [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany charters opt out of state teacher evals
The charters, which were created to be flexible and free of the numerous state mandates imposed on public districts, are legally allowed to refuse the new teacher evaluation system. They rejected federal Race to the Top money, which amounted to a few thousand dollars a year per school, and have their own evaluation systems, unique [...]
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Albany high and civil rights movement
Last spring, a group of Albany High School students learned about the Civil Rights movement by traveling around the south with students and staff from Siena College. Certainly, standing on the streets of Birmingham and Montgomery, and sitting in the churches where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the lectures that changed American history is vastly [...]
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The new Albany High
A plan to move Albany High into the Harriman campus will soon hit Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk. The proposal would mean the current building would be razed and a privately-owned dorm would be built on the current Albany high property. The school would have varsity regulation fields for the first time and increased interactivity with [...]
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Albany school taxes go down
Albany is certainly one of the few, and maybe the only, district in the state to see its school taxes go down. The district has been cutting hundreds of staff positions and closed five building and the union gave up a year of pay increases. From my story today: The September surprise is a good [...]
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Albany graduation rate drops, up statewide
The Albany school district’s graduation rate dropped this year to 47 percent, below the 53 percent of last year. It’s also far below two similar districts in the area, Schenectady (57 percent) and Troy (75 percent). But the real story is the number of students the state education department declares as being ready for college. [...]