Fayetteville-Manlius High School has once again been named among the best public high schools in the nation and is the highest ranking public high school in Onondaga County, according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best U.S. High Schools rankings. In the rankings, released on April 30, F-M High School landed 67th out of 1,204 …
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Fayetteville-Manlius High School’s production of “Newsies” has been nominated for 13 Syracuse High School Theatre Awards, including Best Overall in the Large Schools category. Winners will be announced June 2 during the fifth annual Syracuse High School Theatre Awards event, which will take place at the Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse. Advance Media New York …
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Several Fayetteville-Manlius High School seniors are getting ready to compete at the next level. Seventeen F-M student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent and will continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level during the 2019-20 school year. The students participated in an official signing ceremony on April 11 in front of family, friends and coaches …
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Fayetteville-Manlius School District officials are proposing to use additional funds allocated to F-M in the enacted state budget to decrease the amount of money the district previously planned to raise from taxpayers to balance the 2019-20 proposed $85.9 million school budget. The district’s preliminary 2019-20 tax levy increase of 3.17% was based on the Governor’s …
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Does your teenager stay up late and then have a tough time getting out of bed for school in the mornings? If so, this could be part of the reason: Biological sleep patterns shift toward later times for both sleeping and waking during adolescence, meaning it is natural to not be able to fall asleep …
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There are signs of spring all around: robins chirping, patches of grass peeking through melting snow, and construction fencing and vehicles at Enders Road Elementary School and F-M High School. The district has begun construction on the first phase of the voter-approved $45.2 million capital project that includes an approximate 4,000-square-foot addition to Enders Road …
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Fayetteville-Manlius School District’s Safety and Security Task Force is expected to unveil its final report, which will include recommendations for next steps, to the F-M Board of Education on April 8. The group, which is comprised of more than two dozen district and community representatives and led by SUNY Oswego professor and former county task …
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The Fayetteville-Manlius School District’s preliminary 2019-20 budget includes funds to maintain existing programming for students and enhance security measures while holding the tax levy increase at the district’s tax levy limit. The preliminary budget of $85,874,682 would increase spending by $2,975,990, or 3.59 percent, compared to the current 2018-19 school year. The state aid figures …
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When New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo presented his executive state budget proposal on Jan. 15, it included a $956 million increase in overall funding for school operations in the 2019-20 school year. Of that, $338 million will be distributed statewide in additional foundation aid, which is the primary source of funding for everyday school …
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Because New York state made changes to the Enhanced STAR tax exemption earlier this year, all residents age 65+ enrolled in Enhanced STAR now need to also be enrolled in the state’s Income Verification Program (IVP) to continue receiving their Enhanced STAR benefit. The deadline to enroll in IVP is March 1. If a resident …
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