Don’t miss this week’s two webinars and get 1.5 CPE credits each! On Tuesday, February 9, set the time aside to catch STACS and Accountability for Parentally Placed Special Education Private School Students Webinar presented by Lisa Cardinale at Edgewater Consulting, LLC. This webinar is a review of the key elements of the STAC process including a STAC time line, how to assess if STAC forms are getting filed and correct filing practices. Wednesday, don’t miss the Monthly Planner March Edition Webinar – Guidance on IDEA Billing where attendants will be provided an overview of the issues a school district should consider concerning recovering the cost of providing special education services to parentally placed nonresident students pursuant to the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004 and New York State (NYS) Education Law 3602-c.  read more »

NYSASBO has been requested by the NYS Police Special Victims Unit to assist in the distribution of the following information relating to the National Missing Children's Day Poster Contest, in hopes to heighten awareness of issues such as child abductions. This contest is for 5th graders across the state. We ask that you forward this information on to your District Superintendents and elementary schools in your district. Thank you for your assistance. Please direct all questions to the Special Victims Unit at (518) 464-7133 or 464-7134 or NYSPSVU@troopers.state.ny.us. (At left - image of the 2009 New York State poster contestant's submission - Camden Eckler, Poland, New York)  read more »

NYSASBO's 62nd Annual Meeting & Exhibits event page is now open! The 2010 Annual Conference is June 6-9, 2010 at the Saratoga Hilton, Saratoga Springs. Check out the conference highlights and conference schedule to see the exciting programs taking place this summer! Conference details and housing information is available on the Conference event page. To register for the Conference, check out the Annual Conference section of the On-Line store.  read more »

NYSASBO is pleased to announce its Spring 2010 program of workshops, on-line courses, and webinars from the New York State School Business Management Institute.  read more »

NYSASBO is pleased to announce Susan Fletcher, Ph.D. as the keynote speaker for the 2010 Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs, June 6-9. She will be speaking on Monday morning, June 7.

About Dr. Fletcher

Susan Fletcher, Ph.D., a practicing psychologist, is a recognized expert in the areas of productivity, performance and leadership development. Appearing frequently as an expert in television and print media, Susan’s Smart Zone techniques have been the basis of presentations across the country and can be applied to a variety of topics to arm people with the skills to meet today’s home and workplace challenges. Her most recent book, Working in the Smart Zone (January 2008), provides smart strategies to be a top performer at work and at home. (www.fletcherphd.com)  read more »

This week's web focus: Career Services

The career services section is important to individual members, school districts, and companies. Members can browse job vacancies posted by school districts and companies in addition to posting career profiles where school districts can seek and search for the perfect candidate for a position. Through the career services section of the website, members can access information on the School Business Management Institute, the Mentoring program for new School Business Officials, Awards and Scholarships, as well as access to information on our Legal Assistance program.

NYSASBO has been conducting a survey of the salaries paid to school business officials since 1988. The information you provide on this survey, compiled with those of hundreds of others, allows us to present an accurate reflection of the compensation paid to school business officials across the State. The results will assist NYSASBO in its efforts to provide a more informed and effective representation of the profession.

Click here to submit your Salary Survey online.

by Jennifer Bolton-Carls, Ed. D., NYSASBO President Elect

If you have watched TV, searched online or even listened to the radio in the last year, you probably have heard the words “follow us on Twitter!” Everyone from Oprah to the leaders of Starbucks are using this social networking idea to promote products or to understand what their customers are thinking. Many of you are left asking yourself, what is this Twitter anyway?  read more »

This week's web piece to learn more about - The Reporter Blog

The Reporter Blog is a place where members can access and comment on the latest news most important to school business management professionals. The main sections of The Reporter Blog are posts usually created by Steven Van Hoesen, NYSASBO Director of Government Relations & Professional Support Services that include news that is extremely pertinent to school business officials, as well as sections for other news In The Media, Reporter Magazine Feature articles, and State Agency Information. Posts to the Reporter Blog are fed into the daily NewsWire as well. This is another section of the NYSASBO website where you can subscribe to RSS feeds that brings the information to you instead of you having to go to the website or check your emails for the news.

NYSASBO is now a part of the LinkedIn professional community (www.linkedin.com)!

Join the "New York State Association of School Business Officials" group on LinkedIn.

Click here to join!