Browse past news stories for Glebe Street Elementary School in Johnstown, NY.

• District to build bus garage near JHS (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 03:30:28 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education voted Thursday night to build a new bus garage on district property near Johnstown High School. The board decided at a meeting at Glebe Street Elementary School to build the garage on property behind the student parking lot on Wright Drive, away from any residential area.
• District trying to fill vacant posts (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 03:30:00 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education had hoped to appoint new directors to the district's winter guard and jazz band Thursday night, but board President Robert Curtis says he's now only "cautiously optimistic" the positions will be filled for this school year.
• Speaker asks district to fill music post (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on September 26, 2009 at 04:15:25 am
  JOHNSTOWN - A public speaker last week urged the Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education to fill two music directorships that music teacher Daniel Jones was stripped of July 23. District officials said that may happen Thursday. The board last summer decided not to reappoint Jones as director of the Johnstown High School marching band, jazz band and winter guard.
• District considers security upgrade (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 02:45:27 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - A Syracuse architectural firm is assisting the Greater Johnstown School District in sizing up its buildings to determine whether an upgrade in security devices such as cameras and more surveillance measures can be accomplished.
• Principals: School off to good start (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 02:59:58 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District's five principals, including three new ones, gave upbeat start-of-the-year reports to the Board of Education Thursday night at Johnstown High School. Superintendent Katherine A.
• Some teachers may show Obama speech (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on September 13, 2009 at 05:30:08 am
  The Gloversville and Johnstown school districts haven't scheduled mass viewings of President Barack Obama's recent speech to the nation's schoolchildren, but some teachers may show it in their classrooms. Local schools had not yet opened when the president gave his speech live Tuesday. People across the nation have had various reactions to the speech.
• District ready for first day (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on September 4, 2009 at 03:15:20 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Greater Johnstown School District officials said Wednesday's opening of the 2009-10 school year seems to be smoothly on track as the district downsizes from four to three elementary schools.
• Johnstown school gets send-off (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 27, 2009 at 05:54:09 am
  JOHNSTOWN - Despite the rain and the significance of the occasion, it wasn't all gloominess Friday as students, parents, teachers and staff members bid a final good-bye to Jansen Avenue Elementary School.
• District to move half of Jansen to Pleasant (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 24, 2009 at 02:54:34 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - About half of the students of the soon-to-be-closed Jansen Avenue Elementary School will attend Pleasant Avenue Elementary School this fall, and about one-third of the Pleasant Avenue students will go to Warren Street Elementary School, according to a school district plan. Many of the Glebe Street Elementary School students will stay put.
• District chooses to shift students (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 11, 2009 at 03:09:12 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to redraw the attendance boundaries for the city's elementary schools instead of sending all students of the soon-to-close Jansen Avenue Elementary School to Warren Street Elementary School next school year.
• Parents differ on preferred Jansen plan (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 8, 2009 at 03:09:37 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Opinions differ among parents of Jansen Avenue Elementary School students interviewed this week on the subject of where they want their children to go for the next school year and which future redistricting plan should be adopted. Greater Johnstown School District Superintendent Katherine A.
• Group calls for lines to be redrawn (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 28, 2009 at 02:39:07 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education redistricting group Chairman James Levin said Wednesday night his group is recommending redrawing the city's school population into three sections and sending children to their closest school for the fall.
• Board to decide redistricting June 11 (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 04:39:08 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - A final Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education decision on where to send city elementary students after Jansen Avenue Elementary School closes will be made June 11. District officials gave a timeline to deal with redistricting at the board's meeting Thursday night at Johnstown High School.
• Jansen students' future remains in limbo (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 8, 2009 at 02:53:59 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Members of the Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education and the public Thursday night shared ideas about redistricting students because of the planned closure of Jansen Avenue Elementary School, but nothing was resolved and another meeting was scheduled.
• March of Dimes (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 3, 2009 at 04:09:30 am
  JOHNSTOWN - Molly Sear was 14 weeks early when she came into the world about 10 years ago. She was so tiny she could wear her father's wedding ring on her arm like a bracelet. Molly's mom Lisa Sear said her daughter was born at 26 weeks, at 2 pounds, 12 ounces. While at the hospital she dropped below two pounds.
• Warren St. principal denied tenure (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 03:09:00 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Warren Street Elementary School Principal Anne Christiano - the target of a letter from another school's teachers expressing concern about working under her - was denied tenure Thursday night by the Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education. It was the second time she has been denied tenure by the board.
• Jansen students may shift to Warren St. (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on April 17, 2009 at 03:09:12 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education's top option for redistricting - as a result of the planned closure of Jansen Avenue Elementary School - may be to send most of its195 students from there to Warren Street Elementary School. "I think that's scenario number one," board President Robert Curtis said Wednesday.
• Parents upset that school will close (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 28, 2009 at 05:03:49 am
  JOHNSTOWN - Members of the Jansen Avenue Elementary School community expressed displeasure, frustration and sadness Friday afternoon at the news their school will close. Most parents waiting outside the school to pick up their children Friday were angry, some venting their anger toward the Greater Johnstown School Board of Education.
• Committee recommends closing school (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 6, 2009 at 04:09:30 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Johnstown Citizens Advisory Committee on School Restructuring voted 7-4 Thursday night to recommend closing either Jansen Avenue Elementary School or Warren Street Elementary School and redistricting for the remaining three elementary schools that stay open.
• Knox principal to leave (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 5, 2009 at 03:54:53 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education Wednesday night accepted the resignation of Knox Junior High School Principal Steven L. Drescher, effective June 30.
• Restructuring group going full speed ahead (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 3, 2009 at 03:54:36 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Despite some public outcry last week that it slow down the process, the Johnstown Citizens Advisory Committee on School Restructuring appears ready to wrap up its final draft report at its next meeting Thursday.