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    Lackawanna School Board

    Anyone ever heard of Ernesto Leonetti. He quite the Lackawanna school board last night under mysterious circumstances. Anyone know what might have happened?

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    They would like you to think it was under mysterious circumstances but Ernesto was under a state investigation for his behavior following the last administrations final meeting when he decided to flex his muscle with a young girl who happened to be an outgoing members daughter. His mouth is disgusting and so is his behavior. He also was bad mouthing the Arabic community. I know during the last race he and his bubba threatened an Arabian employee with his job if he didn't vote their way. The state negated their investigation on him because he resigned-- too embarrassing for his mama!!

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    This info is 110 percent correct!! Except that you missed the job with insurence for his wife which is all he ever wanted. No need to stay on any longer. His "only" goal was accomplished. Seriously I wish this fool was sent to jail or sued instead.

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    No hits on this from the people who say we are wrong all the time means this is true. I called this 2 weeks ago its old news!!! The real question is what political hack are they going to put in his place?

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    Post Thursday Nov 18, 2010 Meeting at Truman???

    By Harold McNeil

    NEWS STAFF REPORTER

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    November 16, 2010, 12:00 AM


    November 16, 2010, 7:10 AM


    The Lackawanna School Board is considering consolidating its 11 polling places into one central location.

    Board members discussed the change Monday during a work session on the agenda for Thursday’s School Board meeting.

    Board President John W. Makeyenko said anticipated cuts in state aid and increasing expenses have necessitated considering a reduction in the number of polling places for School Board elections.

    “It’s time to reduce polling places. . . . We are only getting a third of the voters out, anyway,” Makeyenko said.

    He said Lackawanna High School on Martin Road was considered as a central location. But, he added, the J. B. Weber Post 898, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at 2909 South Park Ave., is more centrally located.

    School district clerk Annette Iafallo said renting the VFW hall would cost the district $100.

    It could accommodate the same number of voting machines as would be available in the 11 separate polling precincts that were operated in the last School Board election in May, she said.

    Iafallo also said 16 out of 22 local school districts that she informally polled conduct their school board elections at one central location.

    At Monday’s work session, Makeyenko also introduced Maureen Gambino of Martin Road, the board’s newest member.

    Gambino was recently appointed to serve the remainder of the three-year term of Ernesto C. Leonetti, who was elected in May 2009.

    hmcneil@buffnews.com

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    Post I agree in cutting costs completely....but---maybe one ine each Ward?

    "The Lackawanna School Board is considering consolidating its 11 polling places into one central location.
    Board members discussed the change Monday during a work session on the agenda for Thursday’s School Board meeting.

    Board President John W. Makeyenko said anticipated cuts in state aid and increasing expenses have necessitated considering a reduction in the number of polling places for School Board elections.

    “It’s time to reduce polling places. . . . We are only getting a third of the voters out, anyway,” Makeyenko said. "

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    Will this really save lots of money? Citizens, I hope will have lots of input and even be allowed to vote on these major changes.


    Many Citizens in the First Ward walk to the polls......and another change in their polling place will confuse some folks throughout the entire City.
    My Mother s one of them---since Washington School "My place", she has been bounced from Martin Rd to the Italian Club to Post 63. I know she will not be happy with another change when it took her along time to get them to correct her polling place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andreahaxton View Post
    "The Lackawanna School Board is considering consolidating its 11 polling places into one central location.
    Board members discussed the change Monday during a work session on the agenda for Thursday’s School Board meeting.

    Board President John W. Makeyenko said anticipated cuts in state aid and increasing expenses have necessitated considering a reduction in the number of polling places for School Board elections.

    “It’s time to reduce polling places. . . . We are only getting a third of the voters out, anyway,” Makeyenko said. "

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    Will this really save lots of money? Citizens, I hope will have lots of input and even be allowed to vote on these major changes.


    Many Citizens in the First Ward walk to the polls......and another change in their polling place will confuse some folks throughout the entire City.
    My Mother s one of them---since Washington School "My place", she has been bounced from Martin Rd to the Italian Club to Post 63. I know she will not be happy with another change when it took her along time to get them to correct her polling place.
    Lackawanna has 11 polling places for school elections in which 1/3 of the eligible voters participate. Lackawanna's population is currently less than 18,000. Voting in school elections is limited, IIRC, to district residents who are US citizens aged 18 or over and a) property owners; OR b) parents of students attending the schools. Let's say that includes 80% of those 18,000, so 14,400 are eligible but only 33% of those eligibles vote: about 4750. That's about 432 voters per polling place.

    To serve those 432 voters, the polling places are generally open about 8 hours and probably have to have at least 3 poll workers (that's 24 hours labor not including various inspectors/managers etc). If they make $10 an hour (probably low), that's minimally $240 x 11 = $2640. That doesn't include the rent for each polling place that's not a school, the cost of moving the voting machines to the 11 polling places (staff, gasoline, etc) etc.

    To serve 4750 voters at a central location, the polling place would still be open 8 hours, but they could easily get by with fewer workers ... probably 2 per machine rather than 3 and inspectors/managers can supervise more workers since they're all in one place. They might not even need 11 machines. There's only $100 rental for 1 building (if the voting were held at the HS, there would be no rental at all). All the machines come to 1 site and are unloaded and picked up at 1 time so the BOE saves money there as well.

    Most school districts serving populations larger than Lackawanna's use 1 central site because it's cost effective.

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    Thank You Linda D.your information.And thx u for explaining it...If it saves money why not try it.

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    Post People Should be Flocking to te Polls......!

    2010 WNY school district rankings
    Business First
    Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:01am EDT - Last Modified: Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:01am EDT
    .Related:Education . ..Business First has rated the academic performance of 97 school districts in the eight counties of Western New York, based on four years of test data from the New York State Education Department. (The 98th district, Wyoming, was not rated because it does not have a high school.) Districts are listed from top to bottom on this page.

    You can also see the rankings in a series of databases that can be accessed by clicking here.

    These are the 97 districts in order of rank:

    Honor Roll districts
    • 1. Williamsville (Erie County)

    • 2. Clarence (Erie County)

    • 3. East Aurora (Erie County)

    • 4. Alfred-Almond (Allegany County)

    • 5. Amherst (Erie County)

    • 6. Orchard Park (Erie County)

    • 7. Alden (Erie County)

    • 8. Grand Island (Erie County)

    • 9. Bemus Point (Chautauqua County)

    • 10. Iroquois (Erie County)

    • 11. Lewiston-Porter (Niagara County)

    • 12. Hamburg (Erie County)

    • 13. West Seneca (Erie County)

    • 14. Lancaster (Erie County)

    • 15. Akron (Erie County)

    • 16. Frontier (Erie County)

    • 17. Wilson (Niagara County)

    • 18. Sweet Home (Erie County)

    • 19. Holland (Erie County)

    • 20. Southwestern (Chautauqua County)

    Other districts
    • 21. Barker (Niagara County)

    • 22. Eden (Erie County)

    • 23. Niagara-Wheatfield (Niagara County)

    • 24. Starpoint (Niagara County)

    • 25. Pembroke (Genesee County)

    • 26. Chautauqua Lake (Chautauqua County)

    • 27. Depew (Erie County)

    • 28. LeRoy (Genesee County)

    • 29. Sherman (Chautauqua County)

    • 30. Fredonia (Chautauqua County)

    • 31. Springville-Griffith Institute (Erie County)

    • 32. Attica (Wyoming County)

    • 33. Pavilion (Genesee County)

    • 34. Newfane (Niagara County)

    • 35. Clymer (Chautauqua County)

    • 36. Westfield (Chautauqua County)

    • 37. Allegany-Limestone (Cattaraugus County)

    • 38. Tonawanda (Erie County)

    • 39. Lyndonville (Orleans County)

    • 40. Ellicottville (Cattaraugus County)

    • 41. Letchworth (Wyoming County)

    • 42. West Valley (Cattaraugus County)

    • 43. Batavia (Genesee County)

    • 44. Cheektowaga-Maryvale (Erie County)

    • 45. Alexander (Genesee County)

    • 46. Oakfield-Alabama (Genesee County)

    • 47. Albion (Orleans County)

    • 48. Kenmore-Tonawanda (Erie County)

    • 49. Elba (Genesee County)

    • 50. Royalton-Hartland (Niagara County)

    • 51. North Collins (Erie County)

    • 52. Byron-Bergen (Genesee County)

    • 53. North Tonawanda (Niagara County)

    • 54. Lockport (Niagara County)

    • 55. Portville (Cattaraugus County)

    • 56. Medina (Orleans County)

    • 57. Falconer (Chautauqua County)

    • 58. Cleveland Hill (Erie County)

    • 59. Pine Valley (Chautauqua County)

    • 60. Frewsburg (Chautauqua County)

    • 61. Cuba-Rushford (Allegany County)

    • 62. Evans-Brant (Erie County)

    • 63. Kendall (Orleans County)

    • 64. Yorkshire-Pioneer (Cattaraugus County)

    • 65. Belfast (Allegany County)

    • 66. Randolph (Cattaraugus County)

    • 67. Fillmore (Allegany County)

    • 68. Perry (Wyoming County)

    • 69. Wellsville (Allegany County)

    • 70. Cheektowaga (Erie County)

    • 71. Warsaw (Wyoming County)

    • 72. Silver Creek (Chautauqua County)

    • 73. Bolivar-Richburg (Allegany County)

    • 74. Olean (Cattaraugus County)

    • 75. Cassadaga Valley (Chautauqua County)

    • 76. Andover (Allegany County)

    • 77. Ripley (Chautauqua County)

    • 78. Brocton (Chautauqua County)

    • 79. Franklinville (Cattaraugus County)

    • 80. Panama (Chautauqua County)

    • 81. Cheektowaga-Sloan (Erie County)

    • 82. Whitesville (Allegany County)

    • 83. Gowanda (Cattaraugus County)

    • 84. Jamestown (Chautauqua County)

    • 85. Cattaraugus-Little Valley (Cattaraugus County)

    • 86. Forestville (Chautauqua County)

    • 87. Scio (Allegany County)

    • 88. Hinsdale (Cattaraugus County)

    • 89. Genesee Valley (Allegany County)

    • 90. Holley (Orleans County)

    • 91. Niagara Falls (Niagara County)

    • 92. Salamanca (Cattaraugus County)

    • 93. Friendship (Allegany County)

    • 94. Canaseraga (Allegany County)

    • 95. Dunkirk (Chautauqua County)

    • 96. Lackawanna (Erie County)

    • 97. Buffalo (Erie County)
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    Read more: 2010 WNY school district rankings | Business First


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    We are such a small place----what gives?
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    Post At Least WE are Out of the 90's....

    Cost-effectiveness: top to bottom
    Business First
    Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:01am EDT - Last Modified: Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:01am EDT
    .Related:Education ...The following list ranks 97 Western New York school districts according to cost-effectiveness.

    Click here for a database with a detailed breakdown.

    Here are the districts from most cost-effective to least cost-effective:
    • 1. Clarence

    • 2. Lancaster

    • 3. Frontier

    • 4. Hamburg

    • 5. Williamsville

    • 6. Amherst

    • 7. Orchard Park

    • 8. Iroquois

    • 9. Grand Island

    • 10. West Seneca

    • 11. East Aurora

    • 12. Alfred-Almond

    • 13. Eden

    • 14. Alden

    • 15. Falconer

    • 16. Southwestern

    • 17. Bemus Point

    • 18. Akron

    • 19. Starpoint

    • 20. Wilson

    • 21. Tonawanda

    • 22. Frewsburg

    • 23. Springville-Griffith Institute

    • 24. Cheektowaga-Maryvale

    • 25. LeRoy

    • 26. Lockport

    • 27. Newfane

    • 28. Royalton-Hartland

    • 29. Depew

    • 30. Oakfield-Alabama

    • 31. Lewiston-Porter

    • 32. Portville

    • 33. Letchworth

    • 34. Medina

    • 35. Allegany-Limestone

    • 36. Attica

    • 37. Cheektowaga

    • 38. Niagara-Wheatfield

    • 39. Olean

    • 40. Sweet Home

    • 41. Yorkshire-Pioneer

    • 42. North Tonawanda

    • 43. Albion

    • 44. Cassadaga Valley

    • 45. Fredonia

    • 46. Sherman

    • 47. Elba

    • 48. Pembroke

    • 49. Forestville

    • 50. Byron-Bergen

    • 51. Silver Creek

    • 52. Jamestown

    • 53. Kenmore-Tonawanda

    • 54. Cleveland Hill

    • 55. Evans-Brant

    • 56. Alexander

    • 57. Fillmore

    • 58. Westfield

    • 59. Kendall

    • 60. Holland

    • 61. Pavilion

    • 62. Perry

    • 63. Hinsdale

    • 64. Ellicottville

    • 65. Randolph

    • 66. Lyndonville

    • 67. Warsaw

    • 68. Cheektowaga-Sloan

    • 69. Batavia

    • 70. Pine Valley

    • 71. Belfast

    • 72. Wellsville

    • 73. Gowanda

    • 74. Panama

    • 75. Cattaraugus-Little Valley

    • 76. Barker

    • 77. West Valley

    • 78. Andover

    • 79. Holley

    • 80. North Collins

    • 81. Niagara Falls

    • 82. Whitesville

    • 83. Cuba-Rushford

    • 84. Chautauqua Lake

    • 85. Bolivar-Richburg

    • 86. Genesee Valley

    • 87. Dunkirk

    • 88. Lackawanna
    • 89. Franklinville

    • 90. Salamanca

    • 91. Clymer

    • 92. Brocton

    • 93. Scio

    • 94. Canaseraga

    • 95. Ripley

    • 96. Friendship

    • 97. Buffalo
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    Read more: Cost-effectiveness: top to bottom | Business First

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    Post I do not understand OUR Low ratings when....


    2010 pay for 52,440 school employees
    Business First
    Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010
    , 6:48pm EST - Last Modified: Monday, November 15, 2010, 12:01am EST


    ..The following database contains 2009-2010 compensation figures for 52,440 employees of 165 public school districts in Western New York and the Rochester Area. It includes all administrators, staffers, teachers and other workers who were paid $25,000 or more.

    You can use the tabs to winnow the list to a single region, county and district -- and you can further narrow it to surnames beginning with a particular letter and/or compensation within a speciified range. Or you can view the entire database by ignoring those tabs and simply hitting the Search button.

    It's worth noting that employees are not listed with job titles, and that some of them may have shifted from one district to another during the past year, or may have retired.

    And you should be aware that this database is confined to cash compensation, and does not account for the cost of pensions, health insurance or other benefits. But it does include any cash payments made to employees for unused vacation or sick time.

    This information was obtained from SeeThrough New York, a comprehensive website that specializes in facts and figures about state and local governments.


    Name District Compensation (2009-2010)
    Lackawanna $122,630
    Lackawanna $120,906
    Lackawanna $119,791
    Lackawanna $117,862
    Lackawanna $116,703
    Lackawanna $108,815
    Lackawanna $108,204
    Lackawanna $105,617
    Lackawanna $103,889
    Lackawanna $103,862
    Lackawanna $102,862
    Lackawanna $102,381
    Lackawanna $100,956
    Lackawanna $100,937
    Lackawanna $100,827
    Lackawanna $100,096
    Lackawanna $99,737
    Lackawanna $98,438
    Lackawanna $98,059
    Lackawanna $96,257

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    That was only page 1.
    I do not understand..... what gives with OUR ratings when we have a $44 million budget for only appr. 1800 students. Are we on the move?---can someone please explain what is/are the reasons for OUR decades of low rankings?

    The top salary is now I think appr. $160,000/yr. I removed names Business First listed next to the salaries.
    Just my opinion...not picking on anyone, but what a person makes does not mean they....... Once strife gets in, it will take very strong management to get it out! Also too much micro-managing causes employee apathy.....

    Actually it is all the decades of poli-tricks that has caused the dedicated, hard-working employees to have a "if you can't beat im'-then join im' attitude". Shame. The kids suffer from the grown-ups games. Shame.

    Citizens should be running to the polls!

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    Quote Originally Posted by andreahaxton View Post
    2010 WNY school district rankings
    Business First
    Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:01am EDT - Last Modified: Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:01am EDT
    .Related:Education . ..Business First has rated the academic performance of 97 school districts in the eight counties of Western New York, based on four years of test data from the New York State Education Department. (The 98th district, Wyoming, was not rated because it does not have a high school.) Districts are listed from top to bottom on this page.

    You can also see the rankings in a series of databases that can be accessed by clicking here.

    These are the 97 districts in order of rank:

    Honor Roll districts
    • 1. Williamsville (Erie County)


    • 96. Lackawanna (Erie County)
    • 97. Buffalo (Erie County)
    ..
    Read more: 2010 WNY school district rankings | Business First


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    We are such a small place----what gives?
    Compare the median income levels of residents of the Williamsville and Clarence school districts with the median income levels of residents of Lackawanna and Buffalo. The correlation between income levels and academic "success" is astounding. Wealthy, well-educated parents tend to have kids that do well academically in school. Poor, poorly-educated parents tend to have kids who struggle academically in school.

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    Andrea, I don't know where Business First got it's "cost-effectiveness" data from because there wasn't a link to the database or to the original article, so I can't be sure of their methodology. I think they base "cost-effectiveness" on some formula of cost-per-student and academic results -- or maybe they're just using cost-per-student.

    Like all poor, urban districts, Lackawanna has lots of kids from deprived backgrounds. Some are just poor. Some are poor plus they come from dysfunctional families. Some are poor plus they have special needs. Some are not so poor but come from immigrant homes where their parents may or may not speak English. Some come from homes where their parents are functionally illiterate. Generally speaking, there's a higher percentage of special needs students among poor populations because of poor prenatal care, alcoholism, drug abuse, etc. Lots of kids in urban schools fit more than 1 of these categories -- and these kids are much more expensive to teach since many require almost 1-on-1 instruction. Plus, they have less chance of academic success.

    In wealthier school districts, you will find special needs students as well, but you don't find as high a percentage of them nor do you find all the problems related to poverty. The "poorest" families living in Williamsville would probably be middle-class in Lackawanna.

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    Post Schools are a BIG Business -----Do they really care what they produce?

    Editorial Page Buffalo News editorials Paying too much
    Local education costs skyrocket as achievement remains mediocre
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    November 17, 2010, 12:00 AM

    Is anyone surprised?The salaries lavished on the region’s plethora of public school superintendents soar ever upward, unbridled by recessionary bothers.

    It’s not just the superintendents. Public school administrators at lower levels are fat and happy with incomes that reach well into six figures.

    Thirty-five teachers and administrators in Erie and Niagara counties grossed more than$150,000 in the 2009-10 academic year, according to payroll data amassed recently by the Empire Center for New York State Policy and posted on www.seethroughny.net .

    Some teachers appear on the list because they retired and cashed in the unused sick days they carry over from year to year. In New York, it’s not enough for public sector employees to be happy that they didn’t get sick. They must reap a cash reward for their good health.

    The education bureaucracy has convinced the masses that its mission will fail unless all its cogs are well-greased and able to afford European luxury sedans.

    New York’s public school system historically spends more per student than any other state, with mediocre results— 40th in the nation—when measuring student performance among the states.

    Consequently, New York’s property tax load is at the top of the heap nearly every year and in nearly every measure, largely because of the property tax burden placed on real estate by the local school district.

    Please hold the argument that the public can vote on school district budgets. Voters get a couple of cracks at defeating a budget, but their efforts will lead only to a contingency budget that does not drive down spending in a meaningful way.

    Public school superintendents have set up a fine racket for themselves. They do little to merge small neighboring districts because they want to keep the number of New York school systems at more than 700. That way, there’s always a school superintendent or three they can point to for a salary comparison to justify richer compensation.

    Compliant school boards are usually happy to go along, and the member who objects to wild spending is ostracized as not being “for the children.” Further, with more than 700 districts doing little to combine services, administrators make sure their jobs remain in demand.

    Administrators will then convince the public that gains in student achievement result from the fine management skills found at the upper echelons of the bureaucracy, when parental involvement in a child’s education remains the factor that most controls student success.

    Superintendents occasionally try to compare their salaries with private sector executives who supervise similar numbers of employees or handle similar amounts of money. But private sector executives are expected to make money for their companies in competition with industry rivals. Management teams in public schools have no such burden.

    Consider Williamsville Superintendent Howard S. Smith’s silly justification for the fact that his deputy superintendents were paid$151,620 in the last academic year.

    (Smith’s gross pay for running the 10,400-student Williamsville district—$ 227,850 last year—finally eclipsed the gross pay given Buffalo Superintendent James A. Williams —$223,372. Williams runs a system with 34,000 students.)

    Smith called his Williamsville district a$160 million operation and said, “I don’t think those salaries are out of line in any way.”

    Using his logic, commissioners with Erie County government, a$1 billion operation, should make around $900,000 a year. It doesn’t add up.


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    OUR babies are at their mercy.........and it is very sad that the rotten apples.........can spoil the whole bunch.

    I heard some teachers/administrators in LA knowingly let some struggling students fail because they wanted extra money to help them. This caused some not to graduate.
    T or F ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linda_D View Post
    Andrea, I don't know where Business First got it's "cost-effectiveness" data from because there wasn't a link to the database or to the original article, so I can't be sure of their methodology. I think they base "cost-effectiveness" on some formula of cost-per-student and academic results -- or maybe they're just using cost-per-student.

    Like all poor, urban districts, Lackawanna has lots of kids from deprived backgrounds. Some are just poor. Some are poor plus they come from dysfunctional families. Some are poor plus they have special needs. Some are not so poor but come from immigrant homes where their parents may or may not speak English. Some come from homes where their parents are functionally illiterate. Generally speaking, there's a higher percentage of special needs students among poor populations because of poor prenatal care, alcoholism, drug abuse, etc. Lots of kids in urban schools fit more than 1 of these categories -- and these kids are much more expensive to teach since many require almost 1-on-1 instruction. Plus, they have less chance of academic success.

    In wealthier school districts, you will find special needs students as well, but you don't find as high a percentage of them nor do you find all the problems related to poverty. The "poorest" families living in Williamsville would probably be middle-class in Lackawanna.
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    I will gladly take you around---I told you before, and you are judging without knowing the real people.

    Jerks are EVERYWHERE---we all know this, they cover it up better but God has been exposing lots of them on TV lately. We lived in the Frontier district for 14 years, my son is now 37----I could not believe my ears when he told me about the dogs brought in, in the 80's.
    I am tired of the stereotyping! Please stop it bigots---you are condemning children before they even get out of the starting gate and labeling them.
    Go read to them or be a Big-Brother/Sister then, do you help volunteer?

    All the money dumped in should bring better results regardless.

    Something is going on with why the Board wants to remove polling districts and I suspect it has to do with the up-coming budget in 2011.
    They will get their people out and get it passed under the nose of the silent majority who have shrugged their shoulders and given up on any hope of Lackawanna getting better.
    And the other kids are in Catholic Schools.

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