On May 21, voters will decide on the purchase of five buses: three 71-passenger school buses, one of which would have a luggage box, one 36-passenger bus and one 56-passenger, wheelchair-accessible school bus. Each of the buses would include air conditioning, and the total purchase cost would not exceed $675,137. All school buses must pass …
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Two Fayetteville-Manlius High School students recently earned recognition for superior achievement in career and technical education fields. Earlier this spring, F-M seniors Hanna Breen and Taqaneessa Desmond were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS). Hanna and Taqaneessa are each enrolled in New Vision programs through Onondaga – Cortland – Madison Counties BOCES. New …
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Two Fayetteville-Manlius High School students’ academic excellence contributed to them earning opportunities to study abroad in Germany. Junior Ian Bryant received the U.S. Department of State’s Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) High School scholarship to live in Germany with a host family and attend a German high school for the 2019-20 academic year. Eligibility requires students …
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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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When children’s author Kate Messner visited the Fayetteville-Manlius School District in April, she made sure to bring along with her at least one of her (seven) writer’s notebooks. “You just never know,” she told a group of Fayetteville Elementary School second-graders while holding up her chosen notebook for the day: a spiral bound pad wrapped …
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A best-selling author and illustrator recently visited the Fayetteville-Manlius School District to talk with some of the children and teens who read his books. On April 9, New York Times best-selling author Nathan Hale visited Wellwood Middle School where he spent the day writing, drawing, storytelling and discussing American history with students in grades five …
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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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Seven people. On average, that’s how many individuals will handle a portion of marijuana before it reaches the lowest end of the retail drug spectrum: a high school user, according to former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Robert Stutman. On April 9, Mr. Stutman visited Fayetteville-Manlius High School where he talked candidly to …
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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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