Education News

Walton Central School District held a community forum Thursday with over two hundred people in attendance. The reason for the gathering was the future of educational quality at the school. WDLA's Ron Galley spoke with the superintendent and one of the attendees...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Governor Andrew Cuomo has assembled a panel of lawmakers, parents, educators and business leaders to look into the state's rollout of the Common Core Learning Standards. The Common Core has been adopted by all but a handful of states as a uniform set of kindergarten-through-graduation benchmarks...

DELHI, NY (01/25/2014)(readMedia)-- SUNY Delhi has launched a new associate degree program, Mechatronics Design, that prepares students for the rapidly growing fields of advanced manufacturing and automation. Delhi's Mechatronics Design program, the first of its type in New York State, combines major technological disciplines...

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released a financial evaluation of New York state's school districts. Of eighty-seven school districts, 13% of school districts statewide were designated as "fiscally stressed." Walton Central School District was designated as being under "moderate" fiscal stress...

Eighty-seven school districts, 13% of school districts statewide, have been designated as fiscally stressed under State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s Fiscal Stress Monitoring System. DiNapoli’s office evaluated 674 school districts with fiscal years ending on June 30, 2013...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York state's 64-campus university system is undertaking a major virtual expansion, adding new online degree programs and enhancing academic and technical support for students taking classes via computer. The State University of New York goes live Tuesday with the initiative it's calling "Open SUNY...

The Otsego County Conservation Association has announced that it will send nine middle-school students to DEC Environmental Education Camp next summer through a countywide competitive essay contest. OCCA will reward the nine winners with a week-long stay at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Summer Camp, where campers spend their week immersed in the natural environment and en

The New York State Board of Regents recommends a 6% increase in state education funding for next year.

State Senator James Seward Thursday joined State Senator John Flanagan, Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, in calling on the New York State Education Department to rework the Common Core Learning Standards and associated testing...