And what exactly are these property owners getting for their money?
A hole in the wallet? An empty purse? But still we hear rumors of "renaissance". Not at the "award winning" school system.
The City sheeple pay over $160,000,000 for a pass rate of only 54%. Since the pass rate is so pathetic how about wasting a ten million less? Start by firing the pathetic administrators en mass.
I was at a neighborhood association meeting in Albany last night. The attendance was quite good and all they could talk about was how great Albany City schools are by comparison to Schenectady.
Albany is clearly no better. Albany just knows how to make sh!t shine to the rest of the world. And boomer/alley/cal/beasley, before you go on your usual un-credible rant..which we're sure you will anyway, since you can't help yourself......let me say that I have friends on that school board......AND have friends who's kids go to there.
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
Look Mr. Mertz--the most incredible thing you just wrote is that you HAD friends. FYI - the Albany City School System and the neighborhoods are partners on my grant so I work closely with them. I am happy to say, I have NO friends on the Schenectady Board! Stop trying to guess who I am because you keep making an a$$ out of yourself. Explain yourself relative to debacle you caused with the Ethics board in Rotterdam.
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
The situation may look better in Albany because of its 10 charter schools. The Schenectady District wastes over $1 million to bus kids to Albany charters. Albany High has been a troubled school for years. In Schenectady there is no charter school option-it's either private or the districts schools.
On April 2, I was enjoying a cup of coffee with delicious babka while reading The Daily Gazette. I turned to the editorial page. The main editorial stated “Raucci gets his comeuppance, but what about his ‘enablers’?” The second-to-last paragraph stated, “School board members can’t just sit there now, shrug their shoulders and wait for something to happen — like Ely, who is desperately seeking another superintendent’s job, landing one in some other district credulous or stupid enough to give him one.” Suddenly, I recalled an April 1 article, “Candidate eager for challenge.” Helen Anne Livingson is a final candidate for associate superintendent of Schenectady High School. It seems Ms. Livingston signed a three-year contract and has now left her job on a leave with pay and benefits. She also has been charged with harassment. Her explanation of the above was, of course, quite credible. I now understand how Mr. Ely was considered for the superintendent’s job in Billings, Mont. Perhaps the Schenectady school district should read the second-tolast paragraph in the editorial that I just quoted. Don’t we ever learn?
There is a cancer all through the system.....and it is embedded like DNA.....the National teachers union is seeded very heavily...and the legislative leaders harvest ALL THE TIME.......
if we can now elect to have artificial insemination of a 'greater race', less disease, stronger immune system, smarter etc......why cant we do that with the national education system?.....
because locally is where the cancer is grown and it is fed via the arteries that make up the system......and the zebra mussels attached all over this ship are rotting it and sinking it.....liberal my a**.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
SCHENECTADY Ely casts eye on Ohio Superintendent applies for job in his home state BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
Superintendent Eric Ely is looking for a job in his home state of Ohio. He is one of 31 candidates for a superintendent position at the Forest Hills school district, near Cincinnati. Ely confirmed the news after the names of the candidates were released. It is the fourth job he has applied for in the past three months. In the other three cases, he made it to the fi nal round but was not hired. The Schenectady Board of Education is hiring an attorney to discuss ways of removing Ely, and every candidate for the board says he should be fi red. Those candidates will form a majority on the board after the May 18 election. He has been accused of failing to act on allegations of workplace misconduct concerning former district facilities manager Steven Raucci. Raucci was recently convicted of placing bombs on property to intimidate those who crossed him or his friends. Ely said he was unaware of Raucci’s criminal activities. Voters were furious when Ely responded to last year’s budget rejection by proposing to change the district’s projected number of students so that the contingency budget could have a 16 percent tax increase. During this year’s budget planning, Ely on several occasions refused to give the school board certain fi gures because he did not want them to cut those expenses. He also criticized the board’s efforts to agree on cuts and responded angrily to one proposal by telling a school board member that she should consider eliminating her own position. This isn’t the first time Ely has applied for a job in Ohio. He tried for a superintendent job there after just 16 months of experience as Schenectady’s superintendent, saying he wanted to be closer to his family. He didn’t get the job. .............>>>>.......................>>>>............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01103&AppName=1
I wonder if schenectady residents will send OH information to get them up to speed.
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
By LAUREN STANFORTH, Staff writer Last updated: 1:51 p.m., Monday, May 17, 2010 SCHENECTADY -- Embattled city schools Superintendent Eric Ely is off for another job interview this week.
Television channel WMFD in Cleveland reports that Ely is one of six candidates expected to interview this week for the Mansfield, Ohio, superintendent job.
The report says the candidates will be interviewing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Ely has been a candidate for at least three other superintendent jobs, but districts in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts have all decided to hire someone else.
A hole in the wallet? An empty purse? But still we hear rumors of "renaissance". Not at the "award winning" school system. 
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