{"id":6349,"date":"2012-08-01T06:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T10:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2012-08-01T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:18:09","slug":"piseco-school-district-in-hamilton-county-will-cease-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/08\/01\/piseco-school-district-in-hamilton-county-will-cease-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Piseco school district in Hamilton County will cease operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the smallest school districts in the Adirondack Park voted yesterday to close its doors and bus local kids to another school ten miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The elementary school in Piseco, in Hamilton County, will cease operation this fall.\u00a0 Ten school children will be affected by the decision and at least three teachers will lose their positions.<\/p>\n<p>112 local residents voted in favor of the change on Tuesday.\u00a0 27 people voted to keep the school open.<\/p>\n<p>Piseco superintendent Peter Hallock said he wasn&#8217;t surprised by the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been difficult for the community,&#8221; Hallock said last night, in an interview with North Country Public Radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But when you think about what&#8217;s best for the children, we&#8217;ve done the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Piseco&#8217;s students will be bused to the Lake Pleasant Elementary School in Speculator, which has 56 kids in grades K through 9.<\/p>\n<p>### ### ###<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaderherald.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/542246\/Voters-reject-school-merger.html\">Voters in the Lake Pleasant school district, meanwhile, decided overwhelmingly last year<\/a> to reject a plan that would have merged their school system with the district in the town of Wells.<\/p>\n<p>The school district only operates K-9 instruction.\u00a0 High schoolers already go to the school in Wells.<\/p>\n<p>School consolidation has been a growing topic in recent years, due in part to budget pressures and to <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/article_4bf50304-aaa3-11e0-9cb8-001cc4c03286.html\">growing efforts by the Cuomo administration to encourage partnerships<\/a> between districts with fewer than 1,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>### ### ### ### ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the smallest school districts in the Adirondack Park voted yesterday to close its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,10,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}