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Students, parents and community partners presented ideas to limit out of school suspensions and the need for a new food commissary building during a winter meeting at D'Youville University.
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Western New York schools cancel outdoor activities due to air quality alerts that have been issued across the region. Drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires has impacted the air quality in much of New York.
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When Kriner Cash resigned in March, Tonja Williams was moved up to run the school system, with the title of interim superintendent. Now, the school has removed the "interim" and Williams has the job.
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Niagara Falls decides to get more bus runs out of a shrunken pool of bus drivers by changing school start times. That means some drivers will have three runs, morning and afternoon.
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A longtime educator in the Buffalo Public School system, who reached a settlement in a lengthy dispute with the district and then retired just two months ago, has died. Crystal Boling-Barton served in the district for 42 years, including three decades as principal at McKinley High School.
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As part of this year's Juneteenth plans, some local educators weaved in the recent tragedy of the Buffalo supermarket to add a new dimension to their discussions of racism and overcoming it.
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Tim Uhl is finishing his first academic year as schools superintendent for the Buffalo Catholic Diocese. All he's had deal with was a culture change, bankruptcy, a pandemic and a mass shooting.
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Fatima Morrell, associate superintendent of culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives, has been selected out of hundreds of applications across the U.S. as one of TIME magazine's 10 "Innovative Teachers of the Year."
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Schools Superintendent Brian Russ said the district will take a "harden the exterior and soften the interior" approach to the remaining month of school.
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Buffalo Public Schools said the Olmsted School #156 on Suffolk Street went into lockdown and then a shelter in place at approximately 10:55 a.m. Tuesday when a student reported witnessing what appeared to be a gun in the possession of another student on school grounds.
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This month, Rep. Elise Stefanik has talked a lot about critical race theory (CRT), a framework for understanding racism as a systemic problem. The 21st District Republican describes the theory as “radical and racist,” and claims New York State is using federal funds to force it on students.
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In a random sampling of about 1,200 graduate students across the seven schools by the state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, 35% of their applications had little to no evidence of their residencies. Buffalo, Binghamton, ESF and Geneseo made up the majority of the problem.