Buffalo, NY (WBEN) A new school year will soon start in WNY. Two school district superintendents are among those getting ready for a new year.
Hamburg Superintendent Tom Adams says a couple of capital improvement projects are in progress. “We do have some completion work to to get done on on a couple playgrounds that we’re putting a rubberized surface on, but those will be done as soon as possible. And we’ve also got a large capital project that one of our elementary schools, Union Plaza Elementary, is currently undergoing. That work will continue during the school year, but we will have it up and ready to run and ready for our staff to come back on Tuesday, September 1, and then for our students’ first day on Wednesday, September 9,” says Adams.
What big differences will be in place? “I would say the the difference would be we are going to try to continue to build on what we think is that the success that we’ve had of creating an environment where kids can create, care, solve, and discover, and that’s not really a difference. But with every year, you have different students who are coming in. Every year, you have different staff members that are coming in. We have 40 new staff that are coming in to our buildings this year in various capacities, and it’s that energy of folks who are both new and the folks that have been here for a while, in terms of of the strengths that they all possess, coming together to make it make it a great year for the kids. That’s the that’ll be the difference of the 26-27 school year, but also that capital project that our voters approved in 2021 as we’re entering its last phase, or we’re in its last phase with the work at Union Pleasant, it’s really, really exciting to see what’s being done to that building, which part of it is over 100 years old, and it’s just going to it’s going to become a remarkable place that’s really reflective of the great staff that works there and the kids, and that goes for the whole district as well,” adds Adams…