Draw together to form a more perfect school district
Illustration by Forest Byrd
As the Guilderland School District continues in an uproar over the reassignment of two of its teachers, we have written as well this week about two important contracts.
GUILDERLAND The Guilderland Bulldogs battled their way to become champs in the Babe Ruth Central District 14-Year-Old All-Star Tournament. The team will now move on to the state regional tournament.
GUILDERLAND In a pin-drop quiet hall Monday morning, nine school board members made carefully-crafted statements on whether the board should review the administration’s transfer of two high-school teachers to the middle school.
GUILDERLAND As school-district workers enter the final year of a four-year contract, they are being frozen on the same step of a 10-step salary scale where they were last year.
GUILDERLAND The Guilderland teachers have a new three-year contract that will give them substantial raises and will lengthen the elementary-school day.
GUILDERLAND Citizens were clearly frustrated Tuesday night when the school board president told them they couldn’t speak in public about two teachers they wanted to defend.