POPLAR RIDGE - Southern Cayuga Middle School principal Karen Simon is graduating to high school.
The Southern Cayuga Central School District announced Monday night that Simon will take over as high school principal effective Feb. 27.
Patricia Reilley, the acting middle school principal and athletic director, has been named the full-time prinicipal to replace Simon at the middle school. Terry Underwood will assume the job of part-time athletic director at the middle school.
Also Monday, two board members - Dean Winspear and Marion Brown - had choice words for lawmakers as they expressed their frustrations with what they characterized as lawmakers' perceived disinterest in and ignorance of their district.
Southern Cayuga's acting schools superintendent Larry Hayes cautioned school board members to approach state
legislators respectfully after Winspear and Brown called
last Saturday's legislative breakfast with Assemblyman Gary
D. Finch, R-Springport,
and State Sen. Michael F. Nozzolio, R-Fayette, “a disappointment.”
“He said that our graduation rate was at 40 or 50 percent, when it's in the high nineties,” Winspear said of Finch.
In fact, Southern Cayuga has cut its high school dropout rate significantly, to 7.8 percent from 13 percent last year, according to a state report released Monday.
“He has not a clue,” said Winspear.
Board members also noted Nozzolio's absence from the breakfast.
“I was so disappointed that he didn't think it was important to make the appearance,” said Brown. “We pay them for this - these are our elected representatives” said school board president Ted Rejman.
But Hayes urged board members to continue attending legislative breakfasts, “because there's nobody else that represents you in Albany, so treat people with as much respect as you can.”
He added, though, that lawmakers should make a stronger commitment to how they will fund schools.
“How they distribute money has nothing to do with the needs of schools,” he said. Hayes will turn the leadership for the district over to Tom Turck on Feb. 27.
In other news:
- Acting Schools Superintendent Larry Hayes presented a budget savings plan the school board approved. Included in the recommendations were the abolishments of a hall monitor and assistant principal position, and a teacher retirement incentive.
- The school board heard presentations on school programs at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Presenters said as the school district increases its focus on literacy for students, teachers are collaborating to spend more time teaching reading and writing to their students in all subject areas.
- Faculty and administrators are also trying to understand how poverty over generations in the area effects students' learning and their ability to follow the structure and rules of a school and classroom setting.
Staff writer Olivia Goldberg can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 235 or at olivia.goldberg@lee.net
Patricia Reilley, the acting middle school principal and athletic director, has been named the full-time prinicipal to replace Simon at the middle school. Terry Underwood will assume the job of part-time athletic director at the middle school.
Also Monday, two board members - Dean Winspear and Marion Brown - had choice words for lawmakers as they expressed their frustrations with what they characterized as lawmakers' perceived disinterest in and ignorance of their district.
Southern Cayuga's acting schools superintendent Larry Hayes cautioned school board members to approach state
legislators respectfully after Winspear and Brown called
last Saturday's legislative breakfast with Assemblyman Gary
D. Finch, R-Springport,
and State Sen. Michael F. Nozzolio, R-Fayette, “a disappointment.”
“He said that our graduation rate was at 40 or 50 percent, when it's in the high nineties,” Winspear said of Finch.
In fact, Southern Cayuga has cut its high school dropout rate significantly, to 7.8 percent from 13 percent last year, according to a state report released Monday.
“He has not a clue,” said Winspear.
Board members also noted Nozzolio's absence from the breakfast.
“I was so disappointed that he didn't think it was important to make the appearance,” said Brown. “We pay them for this - these are our elected representatives” said school board president Ted Rejman.
But Hayes urged board members to continue attending legislative breakfasts, “because there's nobody else that represents you in Albany, so treat people with as much respect as you can.”
He added, though, that lawmakers should make a stronger commitment to how they will fund schools.
“How they distribute money has nothing to do with the needs of schools,” he said. Hayes will turn the leadership for the district over to Tom Turck on Feb. 27.
In other news:
- Acting Schools Superintendent Larry Hayes presented a budget savings plan the school board approved. Included in the recommendations were the abolishments of a hall monitor and assistant principal position, and a teacher retirement incentive.
- The school board heard presentations on school programs at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Presenters said as the school district increases its focus on literacy for students, teachers are collaborating to spend more time teaching reading and writing to their students in all subject areas.
- Faculty and administrators are also trying to understand how poverty over generations in the area effects students' learning and their ability to follow the structure and rules of a school and classroom setting.
Staff writer Olivia Goldberg can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 235 or at olivia.goldberg@lee.net
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