Education

The Norwich City School District passed a nearly $38.7 million budget by a vote of 309-144. Voters also voted to purchase additional passenger buses for $1.26 million, and one 30-passenger wheel chair bus for $105,000.

The Norwich City School District will choose from nine candidates to fill three vacant seats on the Board of Education, and vote on a budget of $38.7 million today.

Voters in school districts across the state head to the polls today to vote on school budgets, fill board of education seats and approve purchase for the coming school year. In Oneonta, school Superintendent David Rowley says the Board of Education had a lot of tough choices to make this year in the proposed budget, which represents a 2.7 percent total tax levy increase.

Officials in the Norwich City School District have released their preliminary budget numbers for 2013-2014.

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.