The Buffalo Chronicle
Education
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Summit Center buys a Sweet Home Road building to shrink a 500-child preschool waiting list, and still needs about $3.5 million
The Summit Center paid $3.75 million for a 55,000-square-foot Amherst building it plans to turn into a preschool and early elementary center for children with autism and developmental disabilities. The plan runs…
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West Seneca’s Boys & Girls Club finds a home in the Winchester building, aiming for a fall 2027 opening
West Seneca schools will give a new Boys & Girls Club three years of free rent and busing at 650 Harlem Road, with East Aurora’s club as lead agency. Organizers are now…
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Cheektowaga Central Middle School PTA named a National PTA School of Excellence
Cheektowaga Central Middle School’s PTA earned a 2025–2027 National PTA School of Excellence designation after a year of family surveys, parent breakfasts and the school’s first Eid celebration.
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Perverse incentives, high costs and poor outcomes: Special Education in New York
BY IAN KINGSBURY Much of New York’s highest-in-the-nation education spending is driven by a single category: special education. Of the $66.2 billion spent on K-12 education in New York in 2017-18, $15.8 billion went…
