SCHENECTADY District gets $2M to fix high school Funds for ‘persistently lowest achieving BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter
The Schenectady City School District is getting $2 million to help turn around its academically struggling high school. Seven districts in New York received a total of $36.5 million in School Improvement Grant money. The funds are from the U.S. Department of Education and awarded by the state Education Department to districts identifi ed as “persistently lowest achieving.” The Schenectady High School graduation rate is about 59 percent. Schenectady’s acting Superintendent John Yagielski said district officials will be able to expand their efforts to catch struggling students in earlier grades as well those at the secondary level who are in danger of not passing the fi ve required Regents exams. The district will also boost night school offerings, Yagielski said. “For some youngsters, that’s the best place for them to be able to catch up on credits they need,” he said. The funding will help add instructional coaches to strengthen the quality of teaching as well as create a chairperson for the guidance department, Yagielski said. For the coming year, Yagielski said, the district will continue with its high school restructuring aimed at improving students’ performance. Last school year, the district put ninth-graders into their own teams where they take their core subjects in one area of the school and receive additional guidance services. This school year, that strategy will be extended into the 10th grade, Yagielski said. The district also hired two new attendance officers to crack down on chronically absent students. Under federal law, schools identified as low achieving must either close and reopen as a charter school or under an education management organization; replace the principal and half of the teachers; replace the principal, reform the curriculum and improve professional development; or close the school and send the students to other higher-achieving schools in the district. Yagielski said Schenectady is choosing the third option — dubbed the “transformation” model. ..................................>>>>...........................>>>>.......................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00905&AppName=1
Yup throw more money at it that will fix the problem
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Why don't they give them 200 million. The more the better. Or 2,000,000,000! That will solve everything.
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How proud is the Shenectady School District that they have one of the 7 worst high schools in the entire State. I'm sure some new Admin and other friends-and-family positions will be a result of this new found $2 mil.
Actually, this $2 million replaces that money the City balked on.
In America, we now reward failure. And these bureaucrats wonder why kids are under performing and America cannot compete in areas like math and science. When the lowest common denominator gets rewarded, everybody strives to be the lowest common denominator.
Under federal law, schools identified as low achieving must either close and reopen as a charter school
THIS is what should be done!!!!
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How proud is the Schenectady School District that they have one of the 7 worst high schools in the entire State. I'm sure some new Admin and other friends-and-family positions will be a result of this new found $2 mil.
According to DVR this is all just bad public relations. They win this booby prize every year. It still leaves a $1 million hole from the $3 million Acting McCarthy is illegally withholding. Of course there should be a Charter School for the poor kids stuck in the horrible City School District. Tell that to Paul Tonko, Cathy Lewis and Ann Reilly when you see them wining and dining at Prime.
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Academically struggling-financially struggling-maintenance struggling. 
According to DVR this is all just bad public relations. They win this booby prize every year. It still leaves a $1 million hole from the $3 million Acting McCarthy is illegally withholding. Of course there should be a Charter School for the poor kids stuck in the horrible City School District. Tell that to Paul Tonko, Cathy Lewis and Ann Reilly when you see them wining and dining at Prime. 
