Browse past news stories for Knox Junior High School in Johnstown, NY.

• 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.
• School board re-elects president (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on July 8, 2009 at 02:56:33 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education Tuesday re-elected its president, but made a change for vice president. By an 8-1 vote, President Robert Curtis was re-elected. New member Ronald Beck voted against Curtis. Beck said he would like to see people in board officer positions "rotated" every year.
• Graduation 2009 (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 28, 2009 at 04:09:29 am
  JOHNSTOWN - The importance of teamwork played itself out through student speeches delivered at Johnstown High School's 128th commencement Saturday morning at Knox Field. A total of 136 graduating seniors from the JHS class of 2009 received their diplomas during pleasant outdoor conditions in which clouds and sunny skies alternated overhead.
• 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.
• School lunch?manager resigns from position in Johnstown (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 20, 2009 at 05:23:50 am
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education Thursday night accepted the resignation of longtime district School Lunch Manager Linda Ellis, along with a handful of personnel items approved by the board.
• Warren Street principal denied tenure again (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on June 11, 2009 at 03:08:53 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Embattled Warren Street Elementary School Principal Anne Christiano was permanently denied tenure by the Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education Wednesday night and no longer will be the principal of that school after June 30.
• 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.
• Satterlee named principal at Knox (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 9, 2009 at 04:09:20 am
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education Thursday named district Athletic Director Michael Satterlee the acting principal at Knox Junior High School until the end of the school year. Satterlee, whose formal title with the district is director of health, recreation and extracurricular activities, was named at the board's session in the Knox library.
• Speakers criticize music dept. cuts (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on May 8, 2009 at 03:08:50 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - Tears welled up in the eyes of a student and a teacher was choked with emotion Thursday night as both protested the Greater Johnstown School District's plan to cut 1 1/2 positions from the district's Music Department.
• 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.
• 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.
• Jansen Ave. school to be closed (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 27, 2009 at 03:03:42 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday night to close Jansen Avenue Elementary School at the end of the school year. "We will move forward," said board President Robert Curtis, whose board made the decision in a 9-0 vote after a 45-minute public hearing in which 14 people spoke at Johnstown High School.
• Buildings in good shape, district told (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 20, 2009 at 03:04:03 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District might want to wait until 2010 to do its normal state-required survey of the district's buildings, which are in good shape, a BOCES staff member said Thursday night. "Your buildings are in very good condition," Michael Carney informed the Board of Education at its business meeting at Johnstown High School.
• Board begins review of restructuring (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 13, 2009 at 03:18:41 pm
  JOHNSTOWN - The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education Thursday night reviewed the Johnstown Citizens Advisory Committee on School Restructuring's final report and set a public forum for March 26.
• Resignation for personal reasons, principal says (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 7, 2009 at 05:34:30 am
  JOHNSTOWN - Knox Junior High School Principal Steven L. Drescher of Duanesburg, who resigned effective June 30, on Friday explained he is leaving that post for personal family reasons. "I've been applying for other jobs that are academic, like teaching and instruction," the Schenectady County man said.
• Committee recommends closing school (The Leader-Herald)
  posted on March 6, 2009 at 04:04:40 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 03:50:14 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.