Talk:List of school districts in New York

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[edit] One or two lists?

Creating one list would most likely make sense. I don't see a reason for having both Lists of school districts in New York and List of school districts in New York.

My concern is that the List of school districts in New York show a "downstate" POV (before anyone flames, I was born in the Tremont section of the Bronx and grew up on LI); For example, Malone is about as far from Albany as Albany is from NYC, and should be in some group other than Capital Region. Any suggestions for improving the regional names? What about the NYS State Ed's Joint Management Team areas? That's my $.02

--Igoldste 20:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Agree that two lists are a pain to maintain and can breed confusion, but there are pros to having the list organized both alphabetically and by region. I AM from the non-Downstate part of NY so I've started a WNY section. This may either help matters or further disambugate them. Time to ponder . . . . 2¢ Jim Dunning 12:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

One list would be better if it could satisfy both of the current structures: one list by region (List of ...) and another list alphabetically by school name (Lists of ...). I'm not sure we can do that using the rules and formats of Wikipedia. To further complicate things, there is a "category:School districts in New York" that shows the school districts alphabetically, but it only contains the district if the district has a wiki page and that page has been properly categorized to New York State, so the category list misses a lot of the districts. Throwing my 2¢ in, I suggest we leave things as they are, at least for now. I have added a link to the other list on each list's wiki so that readers can at least find both lists. Truthanado 01:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JMT Regions

Here is a list of the regions used by NYSED:

• Western (encompasses Erie I, Erie 2-Cattaraugus-Chautauqua, Orleans-Niagara, Cattaraugus-Allegany-Erie-Wyoming, and Steuben-Allegany BOCES areas)

• Suffolk (encompasses Eastern Suffolk and Western Suffolk BOCES areas)

• Nassau (encompasses Nassau BOCES area)

• Capital District (encompasses Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex, Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery, Albany-Schoharie-Schenectady, Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene BOCES areas)

• Mid-West (encompasses Monroe I, Wayne-Finger Lakes, Monroe 2-Orleans, and Genesee Valley BOCES areas)

• Mid-State (encompasses Oswego, Cayuga-Onondaga, Onondaga-Cortland-Madison, and Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES areas)

• Mid-South (encompasses Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego, Broome-Delaware-Tioga, Otsego-Delaware-Schoharie-Greene and Schuyler-Chemung-Tioga BOCES areas)

• Mohawk (encompasses Herkimer-Fulton-Hamilton-Otsego, Oneida-Madison-Herkimer, Madison-Oneida and Jefferson-Lewis-Oneida-Hamilton-Herkimer BOCES areas)

• North Country (encompasses St. Lawrence-Lewis, Franklin-Essex-Hamilton, and Clinton-Essex-Warren-Washington BOCES areas)

• Mid-Hudson (encompasses Sullivan, Ulster, Orange-Ulster, and Dutchess BOCES areas)

• Lower Hudson (encompasses Rockland, Putnam-Westchester, and Westchester BOCES areas)

What I like about using them, if we are going to group the district by regions of the state, is that this is how the districts consider themselves grouped.

--Igoldste 14:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) breaks the state into eight Higher Education Planning Regions:

• Central (Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, Tioga, Tompkins counties)
• Genesee Valley (Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, Yates counties)
• Long Island (Nassau, Suffolk counties)
• Metropolitan (Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond counties)
• Mid-Hudson (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester counties)
• Northeast (Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Essex, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, Washington counties)
• Northern (Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence counties)
• Western (Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Niagara, Wyoming counties)

I have restructured the List of school districts in New York article to match that breakdown. Truthanado 04:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)