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Buffalo students scout options at 'high school fair': By Peter Simon

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/15/08 7:17 AM; Prospective students moved from booth to booth, sizing up 12 different schools.

School aid is whacked worse than feared: By Barbara O’Brien

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/13/08 7:17 AM; School leaders across the region were expecting bad news Wednesday from Gov. David A. Paterson.

$1.8 million Hamburg schools deficit is cut substantially: By Eileen Werbitsky

SOUTHTOWNS CORRESPONDENT

Updated: 11/12/08 9:13 PM; A $1.8 million shortfall in the Hamburg School coffers has been righted in less-than-expected time, Thomas Bagley, director of administrative services, said Friday.

Schools to split bill in steel plant case: By Harold McNeil

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/11/08 11:57 AM; The Lackawanna City Council on Monday approved an agreement that, if approved by the Lackawanna School Board, will require the school district to cover half of the legal bill that was incurred by the city in its ongoing litigation with the owners of the former Bethlehem Steel site who are contesting the tax assessment on the property.

Grants put fresh fruit, vegetables in schools: By PETER SIMON

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 11/11/08 8:03 AM; Seven Buffalo schools, along with schools in the Town of Tonawanda, Akron, Wellsville, Clymer and Scio have received federal grants to provide fresh fruit and vegetables to elementary school pupils.

Why not vet school volunteers?: By Holly Hewitt

CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT

Updated: 10/29/08 12:31 PM; FREDONIA — A question arose at Tuesday night’s Fredonia Board of Education meeting as to why people who do volunteer work in the school system don’t need to be fingerprinted and have their backgrounds checked.

School boards hire firm to study merger feasibility: Updated: 10/30/08 6:26 AM; FREDONIA — The Fredonia and Brocton school boards met jointly Wednesday night in the Fredonia High School library and hired a firm to do a feasibility study on the merger of their two districts.

Tapestry Charter High receives $15,000 grant: Updated: 10/27/08 6:37 AM; Tapestry Charter School’s high school has received a $15,000 grant from the Williamsville-based East Hill Foundation to buy science lab supplies and equipment to support its physics and chemistry curriculum. The high school will move to Tapestry’s new location at 65 Great Arrow Drive next school year.

Holland School Board is told that legal fees far exceed budget: By Eileen Werbitsky

SOUTHTOWNS CORRESPONDENT

Updated: 10/28/08 10:01 AM; Legal fees incurred by the Holland School District in the first 3 1/2 months of the school year have exceeded the annual budget by more than 50 percent, the superintendent told the board at its meeting Monday.

Students, parents ask West Seneca board to approve girls ice hockey: By Barbara O’Brien

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 10/28/08 9:59 AM; More than a dozen girls and their parents asked the West Seneca Central School Board on Monday night to add a girls ice hockey team.

Buffalo schools, teachers unlikely to reach accord on health insurance: By Peter Simon

NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Updated: 10/27/08 8:02 AM; Despite three years of legal battles and $40 million in savings for Buffalo Public Schools, the high-stakes dispute over single-carrier health insurance for teachers appears no closer to resolution than it did when the lawsuit was filed.

Board will put $29.5 million project to vote: By Paul Westmoore

NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU

Updated: 10/23/08 6:56 AM; LOCKPORT — The Lockport School Board is preparing to ask the public to approve spending $29.5 million on renovations and additions to Lockport Senior High School in a December referendum.

First opening of bids on projects set Nov. 5: Updated: 10/23/08 6:37 AM; SILVER CREEK — The first round of bids on $10 million in capital improvement projects for the Silver Creek Central School District will be opened Nov. 5.

Hamburg board invites students to share a lunch: By Eileen Werbitsky

SOUTHTOWNS CORRESPONDENT

Updated: 10/23/08 11:42 PM; The Hamburg School Board is launching a “lunch with the board” program.

Optimism expressed on Akron schools' fiscal health: By Laura E. Winchester

SUBURBAN CORRESPONDENT

Updated: 10/23/08 11:39 PM; Officials of the Akron Central School District remain optimistic about the district’s fiscal condition in the face of the turmoil in the national financial markets and New York State’s budget deficit.