School districts face hard choices amid pandemic-era cuts
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press SCHENECTADY, New York (AP) — The school year in this old industrial city started with a whack of a budget ax. Teachers, classroom aides and counselors were among the hundreds laid off with potential state aid cuts looming. Pre-K is suspended, online classes are at maximum capacity and the ranks of paraprofessionals are decimated across the 9,935-student school system