Education

Cooperstown Central School has a new nickname: CCS Hawkeyes. The school is allowed to use the name Cooperstown Central School Hawkeyes or CCS Hawkeyes after reaching an agreement with the Cooperstown Hawkeyes, a member of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League.

ONEONTA, N.Y. — The SUNY Oneonta Secondary Education Department will present Awards for Exemplary Service to eight area educators during the 20th annual Celebration of Teaching Reception from 4-5 p.m. Thursday in the Craven Lounge of the college’s Morris Conference Center.

Jamie Zieno, a class of 2012 Norwich graduate, has launched a campaign for a position on the Norwich City School Board.

The Oneonta City School District Board of Education last night approved a budget of $33.7 million, which calls for a tax levy increase of 2.7 percent. Interim Superintendent David Rowley is optimistic that this spending plan will also have the approval of the public.

Grants totaling $3.4 million have been awarded to 18 organizations across the state to fund unique public and private partnerships between private and non-profit organizations to support early childhood to youth-aged programs in local communities in need.

Four teams of students from SUNY Oneonta and the community will test their engineering skills in a “canstruction” competition this weekend at the Southside Mall in Oneonta. The teams will build structures out of canned food that will ultimately be donated to the local food pantries.

Over 100 people attended the Oneonta City School District Board of Education meeting held at the Greater Plains Elementary School on Wednesday. With the recent New York State budget being passed, Interim Superintendent David Rowley says the school district now knows how much it will receive in state aid.

Oneonta City School District interim superintendent David Rowley outlined more proposed cuts to help close the $1.5 million budget gap the school is facing at the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night.

The Oneonta City School District Board of Education voted unanimously for the reconfiguration of the middle school at its regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday night. The vote comes after the idea to move sixth grade to the middle school was brought to the table at the last meeting. Effective in the fall 2013, grades 6-8 will all be housed in the Oneonta middle school.

The next meeting of the Oneonta City School District Board of Education will be 7 p.m. Wednesday at Riverside Elementary School. Interim Superintendent David Rowley will be introducing the next series of proposals to help close the budget deficit.