The Board of Education in Niskayuna has voted to adopt its 2025-26 budget, which will be voted on by taxpayers in May.
It includes a 2.3% tax increase.
One of the big items in the budget would restore the school resource officer program.
A full-time school resource officer would be hired for the high school.
There would also be two security monitors.
Five full-time security monitors would also be hired for each of the elementary schools.
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger says mergers, sales or closures of some churches, rectories and schools should be anticipated as part of the process.
The stricter rules for nonpublic schools were adopted in 2022.
Tonko says Democrats plan to highlight the positive role of education in fighting the administration.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany announced restructuring plans on Friday afternoon.
Voters in Green Island approved sending students in grades 9-12 to Watervliet High School beginning in September, according to the district.
It’s billed as the largest, most comprehensive air traffic control simulator at a community college east of the Mississippi River.
