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It's interview season.  You filled out application after application, you mailed your credentials, and you waited for the call.  You were probably busy when the unknown number crawled across your Caller ID.  You answered with a tentative "Hello?" and someone asked you if you were interested in interviewing for a teaching position.  Plucked out...
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Business First has rated the academic performance of 97 school districts in the eight counties of Western New York, based on four years of test data from the New York State Education Department. (The 98th district, Wyoming, was not rated because it does not have a high school.) Districts are listed from top to...
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Business First has rated the academic performance of 133 public and private high schools in the eight counties of Western New York, based on four years of test data from the New York State Education Department. Schools are listed from top to bottom in the following list. You can also see the rankings in...
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Business First has rated the academic performance of 212 public and private middle schools in the eight counties of Western New York, based on four years of test data from the New York State Education Department. Schools are listed from top to bottom in the following list. The following abbreviations have been used: CS-Charter...
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I'm between interviews right now. I'm sitting in a comfortable, floral patterned armchair having had two successful interviews that will likely result in future interviews when the vacancies are greenlit from anticipated to open status. I walked into the Convention Center on an 80/20 mix of pessimism and optimism. Having attended many of these...
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