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Champions parade 3 p.m. Wednesday
Bring your lawn chairs and champagne. The state champion Saratoga Springs varsity hockey team will parade through the city starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday (today). In case you missed it, the Blue Streaks...
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Update on hockey parade
Ladies and gentlemen, meet your State Champion Blue Streaks! Bravo. Here’s a picture of the team just before Wednesday afternoon’s parade, and a shot of the mayor’s proclamation honoring them: Saratoga...
View ArticleFeather in Spa schools’ cap
Several schools in New York will model their elementary-level literacy education on the city school district’s program under a statewide education plan presented on Monday. Story here.
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Rowers capture gold
Good morning. I have another great story about the sports accomplishments of local youth. During the same week in which the Saratoga Springs Blue Streaks became state hockey champions, the Saratoga...
View ArticleCops in schools
Whatcha think? Saratoga Springs police officers will start working out of the city school district’s elementary schools next week in a partnership that hopes to increase security and enhance positive...
View ArticleDistrict challeges state testing
What do you think of this story by Scott Waldman in today’s Times Union? The city school district wants the state to stop relying so much on standardized exams. The school board will vote Tuesday on a...
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New pointman for vets at Excelsior College
The Center for Military Education (CME) at Excelsior College has hired a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan to lead the college’s Lt. Col. Bryant A. Murray Veterans’ Center. Jeremy Glasstetter, an...
View ArticleSpa freshman a poetry finalist
Saratoga Springs High School student Liam McKenna will go to Washington, D.C., Monday and Tuesday to compete in a national poetry reading contest against 52 other high school students in the country....
View ArticleSpa schools’ budget cuts 12 jobs
Voters in the Saratoga Springs City School District will decide on a $112.6 million budget, $3.2 million in building improvements and more on May 21. The 2013-2014 budget proposes a 2.6 percent...
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Rocket men
The Saratoga Springs High School NASA Club is one of two competitors from New York to qualify for the May 11 Team American Rocketry Challenge National Finals in Virginia. The team, from left to right...
View ArticleBullyproofing
Fifth-graders in the Saratoga Springs City School District are invited to bring their parents to a “bullyproofing” program from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Division Street Elementary School....
View ArticleSchool board participation
While interest in running for volunteer school board seats remains mostly robust, the 13 districts across Saratoga County employ a mix of voter requirements and polling hours, the League of Women...
View ArticleSchool budget hearing tonight
The Saratoga Springs Board of Education will hold a public hearing on its proposed $112.6 million budget for the 2013-2014 school year at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Meade Auditorium at Saratoga Springs High...
View ArticlePlayground fundraiser at Prime
The Caroline Street Elementary School Parent Teacher Student Organization will host their first ever gala on May 30 in Prime at Saratoga National to raise funds for its Playground Fund. The event takes...
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Personnel director for Spa schools
Lynette Whaley The Saratoga Springs Board of Education will vote on the appointment of a new director of personnel development at 7 p.m. Thursday (tonight) in the Meade Auditorium at Saratoga Springs...
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150 Walking Tour
(l to r): Josh Visser, Kayla Benton, Laura Donnaruma, Corey Soderstrom, Alex Robinson, Leanne Donelan and Mike Woytowich. Saratoga Springs High School students teamed up with software/technology...
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Top 10 students
Allison Carswell Allison Carswell of Saratoga Springs has been named valedictorian of the city school district’s Class of 2013. Joshua Jameson of Saratoga Springs is salutatorian. Carswell served as...
View ArticlePrincipal blamed for teachers leaving
A growing exodus of teachers from a Saratoga Springs elementary school has concerned parents and led the district to open a review of the principal’s leadership style. At least seven of the 28 teachers...
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New district leader in Galway
Shine Galway schools found a new superintendent in Shannon Shine, the principal at Ichabod Crane Primary School in Valatie. The Galway Board of Education is expected to appoint Shine, a resident of...
View ArticleDistrict decides principal’s fate
The embattled principal of Division Street Elementary School in Saratoga Springs will remain in the job, administrators will tell the public on Tuesday. Principal Greer Miller has survived an...
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