The Schenectady City School District is planning to bring secondary students back to school buildings March 1 in “learning pods,” where students will continue…
School districts eye ramping up in-person school days for students | The Daily Gazette
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School districts across the Capital Region are starting to ramp up the amount of in-person learning students get from their teachers, with some districts nearing full-time, in-person instruction for students who want it.
District leaders across the region are not only citing declining infection rates and increasing vaccination rates, but are also looking forward to increased space flexibility that will come with warmer weather as they start to outline plans to expand in-person instruction, something they say they have been looking to do since schools opened – at least partially – in the fall.
While Cleveland agrees to drop Indians, six Section II schools still use nickname | The Daily Gazette
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Two name changes at the national level – but few at the local, high school level.
It’s been 19 years since New York State Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills drafted a memo to all school board presidents and superintendents of public schools on mascots.
“After careful thought and consideration, I have concluded that the use of Native American symbols or depictions as mascots can become a barrier to building a safe and nurturing school community and improving academic achievement for all students,” he wrote in the April 2001 memo. “I ask superintendents and school boards to lead their communities to a new understanding of this matter. I ask boards to end the use of Native American mascots as soon as practical.”