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Superintendent to Leave
The Wheatland Chili Board of Education has offered Romulus Superintendent Chris Manaseri a position leading their Rochester-area District. While contract negotiations are still occurring, it is expected that Manaseri will resign from Romulus in early January and leave by March. An interim Superintendent will likely lead the District this spring while a search is conducted to select a successor. Manaseri has been at Romulus since January of 1993. Dr. Joseph Marinelli, District Superintendent of the Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES will assist the Romulus Board of Education during the interim period.
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12/23/99
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Superintendent's Conference Day
Friday November 12 will see RCS teachers involved in training around school safety, distance learning, technology and curriculum.
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11/10/99
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Parent Conferences
Members of the teaching staff at RCS will work from Noon to 8 PM on Wednesday November 10, in order to make it easier for parents to attend parent-teacher conferences. This swing shift is part of a long-standing tradition at RCS of trying to encourage parental involvement.
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11/10/99
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New School Year Underway
603 students in K-12 came through RCS doors on Tuesday with all arriving safely for a new school year. Our largest class is currently in 4th grade with 58 students in three sections, while our 9th grade is second largest with 55 students. PreK, Full day kindergarten, Computer instruction at all grade levels, special subjects such as technology, home and careers and foreign language begining in 4th grade, a team taught midle level for 7th and 8th, and portfolio graduation projects required at each grade level in high school, distance learning and a student to computer ratio of 3:1 make Romulus an innovative and exiting place to go to school!
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09/08/99
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New School Year Starts September 7
Students return to classes on Tuesday September 7, 1999 for the beginning of the last school year of the 20th century! Teachers report on Thursday September 2nd, with new staff coming in on Tuesday August 31 for induction programming. 1999-2000 sees RCS adding Distance Learning, a new full-time math position, a new secondary remediation position, a part-time school social worker, and replacing some staff who have left over the summer. In all, four new teachers will be among the staff, and we will be replacing the teaching assistant in the elementary computer lab. A new computer network will allow us to upgrade all machines, install two additional labs for student use, and switch to Windows 95 and Office 97. As soon as Albany approves our plans, we will bid work for the capital project approved by voters last November. Work will include extensive renovations to the auditorium and gymnasium areas, and the addition of a community use and special education room adjacent to the gym. We look forward to another excellent school year at Romulus!
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08/09/99
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RCS Docushare Use featured at Conference
The Rural Schools Conference at The Otesaga in Cooperstown New York will feature as one of its presentations this coming week a session on "Using Docushare to create Virtual Workgroups". Chris Manaseri will be demonstrating to other school administrators and Board of Education members the use to which Romulus puts the Xerox software you are using right now. Romulus is pleased to be represented at this wonderful conference.
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07/09/99
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New Summer Program Added
The Board of Education approved offering a summer remediation program for secondary students this year. Students in grades 7-12 will be able to repeat any failed courses from the 1998-99 school year right here at Romulus. Mr. Ike is the coordinator. See Mr. Hubman for details and registration.
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07/08/99
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1999-2000 Budget Passes
Voters approved a 6 Million dollar budget by a two to one margin on Tuesday and returned four incumbents to the Board of Education in a show of support for the direction in which the school district is heading. The budget includes costs for increased computerization, distance learning, and added staff for remedial instruction as students face new higher standards.
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05/20/99
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Budget Vote and Board Elections
A Budget Hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 11 at 7:30 PM along with a "Meet the Condidates" session at the Board Of Education Meeting that evening. The Budget Vote and Board Elections are scheduled for Tuesday May 18, from 2 to 9 PM. Make sure to bring proof of residency.
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04/30/99
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Saturday Budget Workshop Planned for Community Input
The Board of Education has scheduled at budget workshop for Saturday March 13, 1999 at 9 a.m. so that community members may have input into the budget under development. The Board ususally schedules one or more sessions like this, away from their regular meeting schedule, specifically devoted to the budget. Please plan to join us in the Middle Level Large Group Instruction Room for coffee, a doughnut and a chat about our expenditures for next year. Copies of all material shared with the Board and District SDM Committee to date will be available.
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03/04/99
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School Cancellations
School is closed today. The decision to close was made at 5:30 a.m. and communicated to a list of over one dozen radio stations immediately thereafter. For an accurate listing of RCS and other closings, try www.cancellations.com, available as a link from the Romulus homepage.
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03/04/99
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School Cancelations
School is closed today. The decision to do so was made at 5 a.m. and the calling of radio stations commenced immediately thereafter. For the computer literate among the school community ( read YOU if you've gotten this far into our webpage), we also post our closings at www.cancelations.com. Bookmark this site and you can search for RCS and neighboring school cancelations by zip code and radius of up to 50 miles.
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01/15/99
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4TCC Mobil Youth Program comes to RCS
The Four Town Community Center is starting a Mobil Youth Program for students in grades 7-12 from Romulus, Covert, Lodi and Ovid. The program will be in Romulus at the school on Thursdays from 3-7 pm beginning January 14th. Movies, air hockey, music, hackey sack, and other activities suggested by youth themselves will provide a safe, healthy, and supervised after school opportunity for kids. For more information or to volunteer, call Sherry Burrows at 582-6726, or contact the District Office.
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12/23/98
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Docushare video
RCS was featured in a Xerox promotional video which debuted at the NYSCATE conference in Albany Thanksgivinig week. A copy of the 8 minute video featuring RCS students, teachers and these Docushare files is available at the school and will be shown as part of the December 8 Board meeting. Contact CManaseri@wfmail.rcs.12.ny.us for more information.
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12/02/98
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Capital Project Approved 6 to 1
Romulus voters approved the 1.5 million dollar capital project proposed by the Board on Monday November 16 by a vote of 241 in favor to 43 opposed. Site surveys for the parking lot improvement begin this week, and meetings are already occuring around the Distance Learning Lab.
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11/23/98
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Capital Project Vote November 16
A reminder to the general public that there will be a paper-ballot vote on the approval of a proposed $1.5 Million capital project held Monday November 16, 1998 from 2-9 p.m. in the Elementary Gym. Proof of residency is required. For details about the porposed work see the Romulus Bulletin from November or the files below on the Capital Project.
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11/13/98
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CBO Study Continues
Anne Morgan, Mike Karlsen, and Chris Manaseri continue to work with representatives from Waterloo and Seneca Falls on the feasibility of creating a Consolidated Business Office to serve the three schools. They met on September 28th in Waterloo with BOCES personnel, and plan to meet again October 8. If implemented the office would become functional for the 1999-2000 school year.
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10/01/98
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Capital Project now "Tax-neutral "
At the second Board meeting of September the Board of Education directed the superintendent to apply back Federal Aid recently received and "breakage" on early retirements to the local share available to support the capital project. We will now allocate $217,000 from capital reserve, a Member Item, and these two additional sources - making the project fully funded from available dollars and State aid. This will cause us to be able to do $1.5 million dollars worth of work on the building at no new tax cost , hence " tax neutral".
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10/01/98
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