NISKAYUNA – There will be a school budget presentation held at Niskayuna Town Hall on May 14. Following is more information:

Niskayuna Central School District leaders will be using facilities at the Niskayuna Town Hall on Tuesday, May 14, at 6 p.m. to present information about the proposed 2013-14 school budget and answer your questions.

The presentation will take place in the Town Board Meeting Room.

For more school budget information, click here.

NISKAYUNA – The ‘Greatest Generation’ members will visit Iriquois Middle School during an annual event on Friday, April 26 . Following is more information:

On Friday, April 26, a group of World War II will visit Iroquois Middle School, an annual event at which the members of the Greatest Generation talk to students about their experiences at war and how it shaped their lives over the next six-plus decades.

The program will begin at 1:15 p.m. at Iroquois, located at 2495 Rosendale Road in Niskayuna.

The veterans will speak to the social studies students of teacher Dennis Frank, until about 2:30 p.m., with student questions to follow. At about 2:50 p.m., the 7th/8th grade choir will be singing and then our students will be interacting one-on-on with our veterans until dismissal at 3:15 p.m.

This Iroquios tradition provides an opportunity for students to learn firsthand from those who lived history. 

NISKAYUNA – The Niskayuna Board of Education has adopted a new 2013-14 budget. Following is more information:

At its meeting on Tuesday, April 9, the Board of Education adopted a $76.3 million budget for 2013-14 that contains a spending increase of just 1.31 percent.

The spending plan will require the support of 60 percent of voters to pass because the 5.76 percent tax levy increase it calls for is greater than the district’s calculated limit under the state’s tax levy cap law.

A tax levy increase at that level is required even in a budget that increases spending just 1.3 percent because school leaders again had to contend with rising costs and the loss of non-tax revenue for next year. Reserve funds continue to be limited, and state aid is set to decrease for a fourth consecutive year to a level that is lower than the amount the district received in 2009-10.