Education News

University researchers and science educators come together this weekend for a hands-on event. SUNY Oneonta and the Oneonta World of Learning will host NanoDays, an exploration of the miniscule world of atoms and molecules, and the forces that act on them, on Saturday from noon to 4 pm at the college’s Science Discovery Center in the Science I Building...

Unadilla Elementary School of the Unatego School District will soon have a new principal. Katherine Mazourek is originally from from Newfield, NY. She taught music in Newfield and in Richfield Springs before moving to Arkansas, where she is currently the principal of an elementary school in Jonesboro...

Just as there are tournaments for high school sports teams, there are also state tournaments for speech and debate teams. This year's New York State Forensics Tournament will be held in Delaware County at Delaware Academy in Delhi. About 1,000 students, grades 9-12 (from public, parochial and private schools), as well as 200 parents and chaperones will converge on the area April 5th and 6th... Rea

SUNY Oneonta Athletics is celebrating Division III Week April 7th through the 13th. The week is part of Division III's Identity Initiative, which was introduced in 2010 to sharpen the division's identity and to enable schools and conferences to more effectively explain why they prefer to compete in Division III...

Four SUNY Oneonta students are among a select group of State University of New York students chosen to receive the 2014 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher presented the awards to the students at a reception in their honor Wednesday at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany...

A Walton Central School class has won a county-wide award from the ARC of Delaware County. The fifth-grade class, taught by Nancy Gavett, entered the Everybody Can Contest, earning a top award by creating a book called “Everybody Can – Goes Famous...

State Senator James Seward has called on assembly Democrats to join with senate Republicans in passing a final state budget that will address the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) which has denied school districts millions of dollars in education aid...

State Assemblyman Cliff Crouch, as part of the Assembly Minority Conference, recently launched a website telling legislative leaders they must put “children before politics.” The site informs the general public about the APPLE Plan to reform Common Core and would keep them informed of conference-led initiatives on reforming education in New York state...

Walton Central School District's budget woes continue, according to information released by the district yesterday. A budget workshop planned for yesterday had to be cancelled when ongoing analysis of the district budget raised some questions...

The Chenango County Robotics Team joined 37 other teams in the New York Tech Valley regional competition in Troy last weekend. By the close of the two-day event, Team 145, also known as Team T-Rx, had secured a regional spot, but lost in the end to the #1 ranked team in the best of two out of three matches...