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Awards Nominations

 

It's that time again for the 2012 Awards Nominations

Nominations are now open for the Diana Miller Service to Education Award, Laura Burns Advocacy for Children Award, and Hodgson Russ Excellence in Collaboration Award.

Award descriptions and nomination forms are below. Nominations are accepted from Boards of Education, individual Board members, and Superintendents. Nominees may be from your own District or from a different ECASB Member District.

Nominations are open through March 16th. Please take a few moments to submit a nomination and help honor those who exemplify our best in service, advocacy, and collaboration! 

Here are the forms

Diana Miller
Laura Burns
Excellence in Collaboration 


Bracing for a New Era
21 Erie County School Districts Attend Finance Session

Members of the Holland and Lancaster Boards of Education were among representatives from 21 Erie County School Districts who attended the Saturday morning, "Bracing for A New Era: Life Under the Tax Cap," program presented by Dr. Rick Timbs, Executive Director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium.

Dr. Timbs has been traveling the state speaking on inequitable distribution of state aid and cuts in aid, and the financial challenges ahead under the State's tax levy cap which becomes effective this year.

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Posted on Monday, 09 January 2012 16:41

 

School Leaders’ Summit Draws 100+ to Conversation on Student Success and College Readiness

A day-long Educational Leadership Summit on developing and sustaining partnerships among K-12 school districts and higher education drew more than 100 participants at Erie 1 BOCES, 355 Harlem Road, West Seneca.

Participants included college and university presidents and provosts, school superintendents, and top academic officials from K-12 and higher education. Described as "an unprecedented gathering of leadership" by Erie 1 BOCES District Superintendent Donald A. Ogilvie, the group initiated a conversation about student readiness for college and careers, and the bigger picture of preparing children for the challenges from the beginning of their learning through the culmination of higher education.

Read more: School Leaders’ Summit Draws 100+ to Conversation on Student Success and College Readiness

Posted on Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:22

 

Notes on the Tax Cap Myth

"The real reason local taxpayers are being sucked dry"

"... the tax cap is a bad idea unless it's wedded to relief from state mandates - the real reason local taxpayers are being sucked dry." 
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Syracuse Post-Standard, 5/23/11

In most school districts, state-mandated pension cost increases alone will be higher than the amount allowed under the 2% tax cap being proposed for schools.
 

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Posted on Thursday, 02 June 2011 09:38

   

2011 Excellence in Collaboration Awards

Cleveland Hill School District and Erie 2 Chautauqua Cattaraugus BOCES cited for Excellence in Collaboration at annual event

The 2011 Hodgson Russ Excellence in Collaboration Awards were presented to the Cleveland Hill School District and to Erie 2 Chautauqua Cattaraugus BOCES at the annual dinner meeting of the Erie County Association of School Boards at Salvatore's on June 16, 2011.

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Posted on Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:52