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CNY school districts look to team up to save money

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 12:25 pm by

Last month, Tim Kremer of the School Boards Association and I were invited to speak to superintendents in the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES.  Afterward, we listened to a discussion of the districts’ efforts to develop a “regional operations center” that might consolidate their food service, transportation, and purchasing functions, and expand upon the existing central business office managed by their BOCES.

Today’s Auburn Citizen reports on their progress.

This is one one example of the impressive level energy being applied by school district leaders around the state in looking at different ways to streamline non-instructional functions.  Here is another.

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