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New York Regent
Dawson to visit HFM BOCES
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York State Regent James Dawson will tour HFM BOCES facilities
and programs on Monday, Jan. 30, and participate in the next
meeting of the Mohawk Sacandaga School Boards Association.
Dawson’s purpose is to meet with area school superintendents and
Board of Education members about the state of public education
in rural upstate districts, many of which are under significant
fiscal distress.
The visit coincides with the January meeting of the Mohawk
Sacandaga School Boards Association. That group will meet at
6:30 p.m. Monday to address “educational insolvency” in the HFM
BOCES region, a term coined to describe the growing fiscal
inability of schools around the state to provide the sound basic
education guaranteed to students under the New York State
Constitution.
Equally important agenda items are the continuing effort to boil
down priorities defined at the Association’s Education and
Economic Development Summit in November 2011, and the
Transportation Pilot Study.
Regent Dawson was originally appointed to the Board of Regents
in 1993. He currently serves as Chair of the Cultural Education
Committee, which has oversight over libraries, museums, archives
and public television, and Vice Chair of the Regent’s State Aid
Subcommittee.
HFM BOCES is part of Dawson’s Fourth Judicial District (the
North Country from the Mohawk River to the Canadian border).
The Regents are responsible for the general supervision of all
educational activities within the state, presiding over The
University and the New York State Education Department. The
Regents are organized into standing committees, subcommittees
and work groups whose members and chairs are appointed by the
Chancellor.
The Board comprises 17 members elected by the State Legislature
for 5-year terms: one from each of the state's 13 judicial
districts and 4 members who serve at large. Regents are
unsalaried and are reimbursed only for travel and related
expenses in connection with their official duties. |
