With millions of education dollars at stake, the Buffalo teachers' union continues to play hardball with the district and State Education Department on teacher evaluations. The fate of Lafayette High School could be at stake.
The State Board of Regents has voted to close Pinnacle Charter School at year's end due to academic concerns. Also, Buffalo schools officials will go to Albany to make the case for $5.6 million in aid.
The fight over millions of dollars to help turn around the city's seven most troubled schools is becoming more tangled, with the State Education Department rejecting the third deal between the schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation over principal and teacher evaluations.
In recent years, there have been more accusations of cheating in chess, due in part to the proliferation of smart phones. Now, a professor in Buffalo claims he’s found a way root it out.
The Buffalo school district and the teachers' union have sent a new teacher evaluation plan to Albany that attempts to deal with poor student attendance at some city schools. Millions of dollars in education aid are at stake.
