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Mike Virgil

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Senior To CCS Board: We Won’t Be Bullied

E-PETITION SPURS DEBATE Senior To CCS Board: We Won’t Be Bullied By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bobby Walker, a CCS senior and leader of the Otsego County Young Republicans, said he was called into the principal’s office and told to “remove” e-petitions he was circulating on behalf of Laurie Pestar, the elementary school secretary who was seeking an unpaid leave while she fights cancer. Walker refused to do so, and asked Middle/High School Principal Donna Lucy who…
December 14, 2016
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Common Core Opt-Out Rates Down at CCS

Common Core Opt-Out Rates Down at Cooperstown Central COOPERSTOWN – Opt-out rates for the Common Core’s English Language Arts test are down from 62 percent to 48 percent, according to Interim Superintendent Mike Virgil. “I overheard one parent saying they had opted out last year, but because the changes that had been made, they let their kid take it this year,” Virgil said. Last year, 62 percent of parents opted out of the test, which is given over three days…
April 8, 2016

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