I will say this for the current students of schenectady high that i have met and worked with over the past 3-4 years

no matter what their background; if treated with respect, respect was returned.

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But you can blame it on the lack of effort and foresight in the city government and the speed of the decline that is increasing during the Stratton Administration.

How can you say that the Stratton Administration has lacked in either effort or foresight?

The Republican Mayor that Mr. Stratton replaced ..  had left Schenectady in deep poop .. Mr. Stratton has turned the city around .. much still needs to be done  --- and I cite the need to spend some time and effort on Bellevue and Mont Pleasant  (and Mr. Stratton knows because I have told him many times .. we need his help up in Month Pleasant).  

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How can you say that the Stratton Administration has lacked in either effort or foresight?

The Republican Mayor that Mr. Stratton replaced ..  had left Schenectady in deep poop .. Mr. Stratton has turned the city around .. much still needs to be done  --- and I cite the need to spend some time and effort on Bellevue and Mont Pleasant  (and Mr. Stratton knows because I have told him many times .. we need his help up in Month Pleasant).  

If you really believe that you must obviously have a dem political job. STOP BLAMING AL. Things have only went from bad to worse. Just because the 400 block looks good does not mean Stratton did a good job. He is riding the wave of Metroplex which has very little to do with him. He has maintained the tax rate by raising all fees, i.e. water, sewer, etc. and by raising assessments. His chicken is coming to roost, or will he be gone before then?

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If you really believe that you must obviously have a dem political job. STOP BLAMING AL. Things have only went from bad to worse. Just because the 400 block looks good does not mean Stratton did a good job. He is riding the wave of Metroplex which has very little to do with him. He has maintained the tax rate by raising all fees, i.e. water, sewer, etc. and by raising assessments. His chicken is coming to roost, or will he be gone before then?

nope .. I don't have a Democratic political job

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How can you say that the Stratton Administration has lacked in either effort or foresight?

Mr. Stratton has turned the city around .. much still needs to be done  --- and I cite the need to spend some time and effort on Bellevue and Mont Pleasant  (and Mr. Stratton knows because I have told him many times .. we need his help up in Month Pleasant).  

Turned the City around? ROTFLMAO! After 7 years of his so-called "leadership" he created a record $13 MILLION deficit. Name one thing this horrible Mayor has done for Mount Pleasant? Moved Marcella's off Crane Street. He can't help anyone. He's laughing at you and the idiots that keep re-electing him. Look around and smell the Sanka.

     You are equally wrong about the pathetic City Schools. Statewide disgrace. $161 million dumped into them and they can't graduate half the students. How many of the graduates can read? Nothing improves by cheering mediocrity.

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If you really believe that you must obviously have a dem political job. STOP BLAMING AL. Things have only went from bad to worse. Just because the 400 block looks good does not mean Stratton did a good job. He is riding the wave of Metroplex which has very little to do with him. He has maintained the tax rate by raising all fees, i.e. water, sewer, etc. and by raising assessments. His chicken is coming to roost, or will he be gone before then?

Word on the street is that he will be gone. Cuomo might take him off our backs? With voters like DVOR all you can say is Thank God.

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‘Persistently dumb’ policy

    The Schenectady City School District claims that it has significantly reduced the number of violent incidents, and thus deserves to be removed from the state Education Department’s list of “persistently dangerous” schools. Unfortunately for Schenectady, the new commissioner, David Steiner, has changed the rules and now a school must show two straight years of improvement rather than just one.
    The change would make some sense (after all, if you have been “persistently dangerous,” why not have to show that you are “persistently safe”?) if the list actually meant something — i.e. if it were an accurate comparison of all public schools’ safety records. But it is nothing of the sort. This is simply a case of an out-of-touch bureaucracy persisting in a fantasy of its own making.
    The fact is, we don’t know — and more important, the Education Department doesn’t know — if Schenectady schools were really safer last year than the year before. The system relies on districts reporting these incidents honestly; the only checking the Education Department does is of student records compared to the reported incidents. If a district chooses not to include, or to minimize, an incident in the student’s record, there will be no discrepancy in the reported incidents for an Ed Department audit to catch. And those audits are irregular at best.
    Maybe the Schenectady school district really did get much safer virtually overnight (although that is dubious because it had the same people and programs as before.) But if it was doing a little underreporting, it has plenty of company. ...............>>>>.....................>>>>....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01101&AppName=1