Does anyone think any info will come out in time for election season? Or maybe it will come out on Christmas Eve.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Getting rid of the rascals only salvation for Sch’dy schools
I have been a Schenectady homeowner for more than 10 years and, with the exception of the school board and the high school executive staff, have seen many improvements to the city, ranging from physical infrastructure to business incentives. The recent publicized events of the school board and at the high school make me cringe. After the suicides, the school budget fiasco, the many distasteful Raucci incidents, the premature and unnecessary [administrative] contract extensions, the reinstatement of Linda Bellick, and other occurrences, I can only come to the conclusion that the school board and superintendent (in spite of the fact that he is very well paid, obviously not based on performance) are irresponsible and unresponsive to the voters’ wishes. The attitude and lack of respect of the school board toward residents attending the last school board meeting [Sept. 3] was unbelievable. When I see the Schenectady city schools ranked 81 out of 84 Capital Region school districts, it makes me furious that we, as residents, let this situation persist. We, as voters, are responsible for this situation, having voted the school board in place. Out of respect for our children’s education and for preservation of our home values, the school board — except for Diane Herrmann — needs to be replaced as quickly as possible. Make your vote do your talking; obviously nothing else works.
Mr Werner is in for a pleasant surprise. We are now organized and not waiting around for May elections.
Every school bored member who used school employees to campaign is finished. Violation of several laws. Everyone, except Diane Herman, is in deep doo-doo. The smart ones will immediately exit-use the ever popular "family concerns"-lol.
Salvatore--They may be working hard but as team cannot handle the challenges that the district faces. Everyday there is some new revelation and they are impotent in their response. The vision of the board seems to have gone awry. There is no stability on that board. I am sure all good folks but they cannot respond to the district problems of student, employee, faculty and administration issues. I, too, spent some time at Howe School. It was a great neighborhood school. Keeping it open wouldn't eliminate the problems that exist but it might have, because of its stability, reduced some problems. You definitely need a new board.
[Schenectady Schools] Superintendent Eric Ely's comments in the Sept. 17 article, "District aims to shake up high school," is missing the mark on a number of points. The modular schedule was adopted at Schenectady High School in the early 1990s, when the district chose to reorganize two high schools into one. There were two predominant reasons for doing so at that time. One, students would be offered a wider variety of course offerings, and two, they would spend more time in class than in the traditional eight- or nine-period day. On average, in the modular schedule, an individual teacher provides four hours of instruction per day. (Each mod lasts 60 minutes.) The traditional nineperiod day provides 42-minute periods and the average time spent teaching is three-and-a-half hours. (Students, of course, receive much more instruction per day as they are in classes for seven hours minus a 30-minute lunch and study hall.) The rest of a teacher's day is spent fulfilling hall duty, in study hall supervision, meeting with colleagues and administration and, of course, planning vigorous and challenging lessons. Teachers at Schenectady High teach four mods per day on average, some days five, and occasionally in the rotating schedule only three. So if you are following the math here, it is a rarity to find a teacher with only two mods, as Mr. Ely implies when he says adults will go from teaching two periods a day to five. If there are teachers who only teach two classes per day, they likely teach in one of the middle schools for the other half of their day or were given an incomplete schedule by their administrator. The real angst caused by the modular schedule may just lie in the costly purchase of the scheduling software (Schenectady City School District spent well over $500,000 to purchase it a few years ago). It is this software that causes the modular schedule to be "unmanageable and unworkable," in our humble opinion. We are glad the district is focusing on improving Schenectady High School because the reported graduation numbers clearly call out for change. No one wants students to succeed more than our members, and they work very hard each day toward that goal!
JULIET BENAQUISTO ROBERT HYNDMAN Patersonville The writers are, respectively, president and fi rst high school vice-president of Schenectady Federation of Teachers.
SCHENECTADY DA: Raucci case about power Carney also cites money as motivation for crimes BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
When city schools Athletic Director Gary DiNola realized someone had tried to bomb his vehicle Nov. 30, 2006, he believed he knew exactly who it was. He had been having a dispute with the city school district’s facilities director, Steve Raucci, over control of the district’s athletic facilities, according to new filings in the terrorism case against Raucci. DiNola had even complained to administrators before the attempted bombing. Afterward, he went straight to the top: Superintendent Eric Ely. “[DiNola] immediately complained to school authorities, telling the superintendent that he believed Raucci had committed the crimes charged [in the current indictment] and nothing was done by the school district,” Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney wrote in motion papers fi led Wednesday. Carney does not mention DiNola by name, but DiNola has previously been identified in papers as the victim of the Nov. 30, 2006, incident. “Soon thereafter [DiNola] resigned and retired from the school district. Raucci remained in unfettered control over school facilities.” Carney filed the papers Wednesday as his response to standard pretrial motions filed earlier by Raucci’s defense attorney, Ronald DeAngelus. DeAngelus Wednesday said he had received the filing but had yet to read it. The papers not only respond to DeAngelus’ motions but they also shed light on what Carney contends were Raucci’s motivations for his alleged crimes: power and money. Raucci, 61, of Niskayuna, faces a 26-count indictment, accused of planting bombs, vandalizing homes and intimidating people to curry favor with higher-ups and solidify his power. Carney argues against defense claims that many of the counts should be dismissed for jurisdictional reasons. While several of the alleged incidents, including the one involving DiNola, happened outside Schenectady County, they were designed to affect county residents, Carney argues. Carney also attempts to turn back arguments that search warrants were invalid. He argues that information used to obtain the warrants was not only fresh, obtained from an informant’s taped conversation with Raucci just two days before Raucci’s Feb. 20 arrest, but it ................>>>>...............>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....1&Continuation=1
Huge revelations in today Gazetto. The Mad Bomber was in it for money and power. DUH!
Front page story and nary a peep on when the case will commence. We know the DA is busy on his re-election campaign {against who? Right the popular REP Mr. Blank}. The more that comes out the more we realize that the entire School Bored and Administration needs to be totally cleaned out.
Cal-Sal is a big supporter of horrible Linda Bellick {who finished dead last} only to be shoved back on the bored. He knows nuthin about school issues. With him its all about keeping the incumbent Krats in.
Are you expecting the schenectady's 'cheerleading media' to investigate and report are you? They ALL have a stake in this!
Never heard about the casino drinking party again either. Strock exposes it...and then it's all downhill from there!
It's up to the sheople to stand up and 'demand' the truth. But where are they? In the dss line? The bethesda house? Catholic charities? City mission? Unemployment? Or perhaps looking for a closet in a vacant apt to die in?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Are you expecting the schenectady's 'cheerleading media' to investigate and report are you? They ALL have a stake in this!
Never heard about the casino drinking party again either. Strock exposes it...and then it's all downhill from there!
It's up to the sheople to stand up and 'demand' the truth. But where are they? In the dss line? The bethesda house? Catholic charities? City mission? Unemployment? Or perhaps looking for a closet in a vacant apt to die in?
But no foul play involved? Like the swim coach stupper who violated no City laws? lol. Strock exposed it and then the editors dropped the ball and refused to print pictures-allowing the TU website to register the most views in history.
Attention all Schenectady School Personnel: Have you heard the latest? Your administration "at work" again!
all this distraction has to stop since school is in and it is affecting the moral at the school with the teachers and now with e the kids STOP NOW PEOPLE ! ARE YOU HAPPY REPUBS THAT YOU STIRRED THIS CRAP UP? JERKS - at least there wont be long for you to have you'r way the people are against you
SCHENECTADY Suits tied to Raucci disallowed by judge Citizens sought to sue school district in case BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
Efforts by four people to sue the city school district over alleged mistreatment by former employee Steven Raucci were largely turned back by a judge’s ruling this week. Ryan Rakoske, Harold and Deborah Gray and Laura Balogh — all prominent figures in the ongoing Raucci saga — had sought to sue the district over the former facilities director’s alleged misconduct. All four individuals had sought the court’s permission to sue even though they had missed deadlines to fi le notices of claim. They alleged they couldn’t come forward earlier because of threats. But state Supreme Court Justice Vincent J. Reilly Jr. refused to give permission, finding no allegations of “specifi c affirmative acts by the school district that constituted duress or would have otherwise prevented them from timely filing a notice of claim.” The only case that Reilly permitted to go forward was over allegations Raucci vandalized the Grays’ Saratoga County home Feb. 16, 2009. It was the fifth and final time Raucci allegedly vandalized the home and was four days before Raucci was arrested. Reilly found those allegations recent enough to grant permission to sue. In all, 11 people have filed or attempted to file suit against the district over Raucci’s alleged misconduct. Without Balogh’s or Rakoske’s claims, that number is reduced to nine. Raucci faces criminal charges of vandalism against all four, and of placing a bomb that failed at Balogh’s home in Schodack. Raucci, 61, of Niskayuna, faces a 26-count indictment, .................>>>>........................>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....1&Continuation=1
Half-true articles are an effort to smear, demonize Raucci VIEWPOINT BY DAVID CASTRICONE For The Sunday Gazette
Regarding the case of Steve Raucci, perhaps we should just disregard the right of an American citizen to be tried by a jury of his peers and just convict him by the court of public opinion. Whoever said, “believe half of what you see and none of what you read,” was a genius. [Raucci, the former buildings and grounds director for the Schenectady School District, faces a 26-count indictment that accuses him of vandalizing homes and planting bombs.] I also believe that if the media prints half the truth, then it’s actually a lie. As the onion is peeled in this case, let’s really ascertain to what extent mere innuendos and allegations have misled the general public, and prospective jurors, into believing that this man is a terrorist and should be put away for his entire life. The only true and known fact in this case is that Mr. Raucci has been in jail for more than seven months awaiting a decision regarding bail from the Appellate Division, which unanimously voted to hear the bail issue. As far as bail is concerned, I just find it interesting that a convicted sexual predator in California, arrested for kidnapping a young girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years, had bail set; an accused murderer in New York just recently had bail set. Yet no bail for Mr. Raucci in Schenectady County. INFORMANT’S ALLEGATION We now have these tidbits on him. We have an explosive device — which, of course, is to make things sound scary — allegedly concealed in his office, according to an informant. And as we all know, an informant can sometimes be a person who is trying to save his own skin from his own criminal past and illegal activities. And, what a coincidence, this informant has admitted stealing night goggles from the Glenville Police Department 10 years ago and giving them to Mr. Raucci. Another tidbit we have is that Mr. Raucci was found to have a Taser, a Smith & Wesson .22 and a Walther PPK 9mm at his home, and a Sturm Ruger .45. Perhaps you should just ask yourself, why hasn’t Mr. Raucci been charged with illegal possession of a firearm? The answer is, of course, he has permits for them. This is a right afforded to us under our Constitution. Your remember that one, the right to bear arms. Why are only negative articles printed about Mr. Raucci? Please remember that no one has been physically injured or even scratched in any manner whatsoever from any of these so-called terrorist acts. To call this man a terrorist is an insult to anyone who has lost a loved one to a terrorist act. As a retired fi refighter, I find it extremely offensive and insulting to compare the ultimate sacrifice of my valorous brothers and sisters at the hands of Bin Laden and ..................>>>>.......................>>>>..............................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....301&ViewMode=GIF
By PAUL NELSON, Staff writer First published in print: Saturday, October 3, 2009
SCHENECTADY -- The city school district next week could release portions of its findings from a probe into possible workplace misconduct by alleged serial bomber Steven Raucci, according to attorney for the district.
At first, school officials refused to release the report, citing pending litigation. But in a letter dated Sept. 30 to a Hearst Corp. lawyer, school district attorney Shari Greenleaf said the Board of Education would revisit the matter when it meets on Oct. 8 and could make information available to the media later that night.
The Times Union, which is a Hearst newspaper, and the Daily Gazette both filed a Freedom of Information requests after the district refused to make public the information. Both newspapers received similar letters from Greenleaf.
See The Mad Bomber wasn't that bad? He only froze out kids/priests and did not blow any up? The DA needs to get out of reverse and prosecute this case. Nothing will improve at the worst school district until The Mad Bomber starts to sing. David G seems to forget that this "accused" is a danger to society. But there is no excuse for the DA's foot dragging.
As far as the School District who cares? These idiots promoted and extended contracts on all involved. As far as Sal-give us a break. It's not just REPS that demand justice. We will hoist you on your own pittard. As BT would say both major parties have left fingerprints.
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Mr Werner is in for a pleasant surprise. We are now organized and not waiting around for May elections. 
