Education

Dogs all ears (and tail) at Dryden reading program

  DRYDEN – If your child is looking to improve confidence in reading, a dog can make a patient, nonjudgmental audience.

Second Red Dragon ReUse collection set for May 7

Thrift store Cortland ReUse plans a second collection of unneeded items from SUNY Cortland students moving out of campus residence hall, and the store hopes to get more volunteers from the SUNY …

‘I can’t miss it’

At first, Cortland resident Layla Trombley didn’t care much for Monday’s solar eclipse, attending Cortland Junior-Senior High School to support her daughter, Jenna Noelle, a music student …

SUNY Cortland to host food system education week

Starting Monday, SUNY Cortland kicks off Harvest Week – the culmination of its year-long series of events surrounding food. Every year, the Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee …

‘We all eat’

The farmer. The grocer. The shopper. The chef. The diner and the designers. Everyone has a place in the food system and Tompkins Cortland Community College students are getting a two-year degree by …

TC3 offers free semiconductor training to veterans

DRYDEN – This autumn, Tompkins Cortland Community College has six spots open to veterans for a free nanotechnology training program. Six more spots will be available in the spring, even as …

TC3 explores housing adult students and families

 

It started with a rocket

Caoimhe Dudgeon watched the rocket launch from her backyard. As the missile soared, so did her curiosity. That was about a decade ago. Now 17, Dudgeon, a Homer High School student, is mentoring …

Blog helps parents beat back illiteracy

Poverty is a key factor in whether children do poorly in school, the Rural Health Institute reports – and 15.1% of Cortland County residents live in poverty, far more than the 11.5% rate of the …

Look (carefully)! Up in the sky!

The Homer Central School District has announced it will close April 8 for the total eclipse, joining other school districts in the greater Cortland area whose classrooms will go dark before the sun …

Dryden library receives $20,000 grant for accessibility

DRYDEN – Nearly every Monday, a small group from the Racker Center – which offers supportive services to people with disabilities and their families – make its way to the Southworth …

SUNY reverses course; club allowed after lawsuit

A pair of SUNY Cortland students can finally have their club, Turning Point USA, meet in campus buildings. All it took was suing their school. Megan Rothmund and Gabriella Delorenzo tried last …

Phillips Free Library provides monthly book boxes to 17 students

Books, snacks and a surprise – oh my! Phillips Free Library will provide 17 Homer High School students with a book, a snack and a little surprise each month through the end of the school …

 

Lt. Gov. promotes new civic engagement office at SUNY

They wore hoodies Wednesday; they wore sweaters. Some had SUNY Cortland regalia. One had a medic’s uniform. One guy wore a suit. That guy was Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who visited SUNY …

‘It’s our gig’

DRYDEN – A chef is a teacher, moreso at Tompkins Cortland Community College: the cooks, the hospitality staff, the business and accounting people. They need to deal with technology, wine …

Students sue SUNY Cortland for not receiving club approval

Two SUNY Cortland students are suing the college’s student association, the college’s president and a professor after the student group denied official recognition to a nationally …

Cortland School District to host EclipseFest24

  Cortland Enlarged City School District students and their families may not be in the line of totality for the upcoming solar eclipse, but they can still view it safely, both on the football field, and from a tethered balloon.

Cortland middle schoolers to open ‘Box’

Instead of letting boxes define them, Cortland middle schoolers are using them as props for their upcoming vignette play. “Box,” a play by Lindsay Price, examines the boxes that people are put into, or put into by others. It runs at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Cortland High School auditorium.

School aid drops for 5 greater Cortland area districts

Bob Edwards is frustrated with proposed state foundation aid distribution, which decreases for Cortland and four other greater Cortland area districts. While five others see increases, only one …

Broken sprinkler closes Old Main

A broken sprinkler system inundated SUNY Cortland’s Old Main with water early Monday morning, Cortland firefighters said. The building was closed Monday in response. Firefighters were …

‘How do we do that?’

School is all about assignments. A teacher telling a student what to do, how to do it, and when the deadline is. Some students, however, are assigning their own projects: projects that better …

School officials skeptical of waiver to help hire bus drivers

Bus driver applicants can now skip a step in the licensing process, but school officials think the process still too many steps for that to make a difference. The state Department of Motor …

‘It helps the brain get more creative’

McGraw fifth and sixth-graders aren’t simply following instructions while they play with LEGOs. They are establishing goals, applying those goals to a theme, coding, assembling robots and …

McGraw kids get classroom-ready using sensory pathways

McGraw Elementary School students don’t always walk from classroom to classroom. They hopscotch, bear crawl, hop and crab walk. The school’s sensory hallways, which were introduced …

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