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VIDEO: Handcuffed students protest suspensions
Frustrated parents and students gave the Buffalo School Board an earful Wednesday night about its out-of-school suspension policy. They argue keeping children out of school doesn't solve the problem
Read More »Board members lambasted for inaction on suspension policy; tensions run high
Buffalo News’ SchoolZone blog 1/26/11 Mary Pasciak http://blogs.buffalonews.com/school_zone/2012/01/tensions-in-the-boardroom.html For the past several weeks, a small crowd has been attending School Board meetings, pushing for an end to out-of-school suspensions for nonviolent offenses. Many of
Read More »VIDEO: Parents express concern about BPS student discipline
It was the fourth and final public hearing Wednesday on student discipline in the Buffalo Public Schools
Read More »Anger Growing over School Suspensions
BUFFALO (WNED) - There's so much interest in the thousands of student suspensions in Buffalo schools there's going to be another public hearing on the problem. An advisory board probing the district's code of conduct
Read More »Rally to end school suspension policy
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A rally Thursday afternoon on the steps of Buffalo's City Hall aimed to bring more attention to the Buffalo school district's out-of-school suspension policy
Read More »‘Carol Against Corporate Greed’
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Members of the Alliance for Quality Education and Citizens Action of New York found a unique way to spread their message Monday night – with a little holiday spirit
Read More »‘99%’ message goes door to door
Volunteers from Citizen Action of New York went door to door Saturday in the Masten District to encourage neighbors to support an extension of the state’s millionaires’ tax, a surcharge on people making more
Read More »Law assists business with health care
In our region, like so much of the rest of upstate New York, business owners are struggling in a brutal economy
Read More »Buerkle Visits Palmyra
Palmyra, N.Y. - In an effort to offer her constituents a chance to ask questions and hear her position on matters that concern them, Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle attended the Palmyra Town Hall June
Read More »Coalition releases missing jobs plan
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The "Getting Our Money's Worth" coalition had a message Tuesday for local and statewide lawmakers. "We've got to continue to say to them, 'you've got to do a heck of a better
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