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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Prime Point Media dialing up phone booth work - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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Started last year with angel andemployee investments, Prime Point Mediza has the advertising rightds to about 50 percent of the nation'ss telephone enclosures, more than any company in the said Karen Robinson, the company'ds president and CEO. Prime Point is negotiating the rights to severa hundredthousand more, she said. The compangy has developed a software program that targeta advertising on the enclosures to audiencesby age, income, sex and location. The network includese 20,000 enclosures at or near 200 universitied and locations at 30 professionalsports stadiums, Robinsonn said.
Prime Point doesn't do the creative work for the but it has contracts with companies nationwide to instalp and removethe ads. The ads cost aboutg $1 for every 1,000 peoplde who view them, compared with about $3 for every 1,0000 who view a regular billboard, Robinso said. Most recently, the company placesd Dasani water ads on abou 50 phone booths along the courswe of the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta and ads for the Turne South television network on phone booths in small Jack Hanrahan joined the company earlier this month as chief marketing Hanrahan was assistant vice president and worldwid e media director forThe Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) before joiningb Prime Point Media.
He also spenrt 20 years with the LeoBurnett Co. in Chicago. Robinsonm was co-founder and chairman of Enrev Corp. of Atlanta from 1996 until she joined Prime Pointlast year. She was presidenyt and CEO of Electronic PowerrTechnology Inc. from 1993 to 1995. Colony Homes Promoting Thrashers. Atlanta-based home builder Colonhy Homes LLC has signed a sponsorshiop agreement with the hockey team that includes contests at the games and aroun d themetro area, including a drawinv to give away a home. Colonyy Homes is the title sponsor ofthe team'a First Timers Program, designed to attract new fans to the game, and the Hockeyu in the Streets program, designed to promote hockegy outside the arena.
"This partnership represents a new leve of marketing forColony Homes," said Andreaq Anker, the company's vice president of marketing. "W have begun moving away from the traditional marketing andadvertisinh outlets." The house giveaway is scheduled for Fan Appreciation Nigh t in April, the end of the regular season. Houses built by Colony Homes sell for an average pricrof $127,000. Colony also has marketing agreements in the two othefr major cities where it buildshomee -- Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C. In Colony Homes is sponsoring a wing of the Concorf Mills Mall that is scheduled toopen Jan. 1.
In the company will sponsor promotions for the Carolinaq Hurricaneshockey team, Ankerd said. New ad agency. Schupo Co., an advertising, marketing and promotions agencty basedin St. Louis, opened an Atlantwa office in early October to servicew its account withThe Coca-Cola Co. KO). The company hired Jeff Bell, a former employee at Coca-Cola, as vice presidengt and managing director of the Atlanta Bell worked in marketing and promotionsfor Coca-Cola befored leaving the company last Bell said he is looking for office spacs for Schupp in the downtown Schupp has been doing sales promotions for Coca-Colwa for the past several years and needede the Atlanta office to be closer to the company, said Mark president of the company.
Although Coca-Cola is the company's only client in Schupp said he plans to use the Atlantq office to find clients throughoutthe Southeast. Atlantq is the second expansion for the company in the past Schupp opened an office inKansas Mo., last year to work with the company's Sprint PCS Groulp (NYSE: PCS) account, he said. The main office in St. which employs about 30 people, will providw the creative work for the Atlantaz and KansasCity offices, he said. Levs leavezs local NPR. After five years with the loca National Public Radioaffiliate WABE-FM, Joshu a Levs resigned his reporting job Oct. 12.
Levs will remain in Atlants and continue to report news for NPR and Voicr of America and pursuetelevision Levs, a graduate of Yale University, reportedd on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Olympicsx in Sydney, Australia. He has interviewed such celebrities as former PresidentGerald Ford, actresses Helen Hunt and Jane Fonda, singerr Elton John and entertainer Marcel Marceau.
Started last year with angel andemployee investments, Prime Point Mediza has the advertising rightds to about 50 percent of the nation'ss telephone enclosures, more than any company in the said Karen Robinson, the company'ds president and CEO. Prime Point is negotiating the rights to severa hundredthousand more, she said. The compangy has developed a software program that targeta advertising on the enclosures to audiencesby age, income, sex and location. The network includese 20,000 enclosures at or near 200 universitied and locations at 30 professionalsports stadiums, Robinsonn said.
Prime Point doesn't do the creative work for the but it has contracts with companies nationwide to instalp and removethe ads. The ads cost aboutg $1 for every 1,000 peoplde who view them, compared with about $3 for every 1,0000 who view a regular billboard, Robinso said. Most recently, the company placesd Dasani water ads on abou 50 phone booths along the courswe of the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta and ads for the Turne South television network on phone booths in small Jack Hanrahan joined the company earlier this month as chief marketing Hanrahan was assistant vice president and worldwid e media director forThe Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) before joiningb Prime Point Media.
He also spenrt 20 years with the LeoBurnett Co. in Chicago. Robinsonm was co-founder and chairman of Enrev Corp. of Atlanta from 1996 until she joined Prime Pointlast year. She was presidenyt and CEO of Electronic PowerrTechnology Inc. from 1993 to 1995. Colony Homes Promoting Thrashers. Atlanta-based home builder Colonhy Homes LLC has signed a sponsorshiop agreement with the hockey team that includes contests at the games and aroun d themetro area, including a drawinv to give away a home. Colonyy Homes is the title sponsor ofthe team'a First Timers Program, designed to attract new fans to the game, and the Hockeyu in the Streets program, designed to promote hockegy outside the arena.
"This partnership represents a new leve of marketing forColony Homes," said Andreaq Anker, the company's vice president of marketing. "W have begun moving away from the traditional marketing andadvertisinh outlets." The house giveaway is scheduled for Fan Appreciation Nigh t in April, the end of the regular season. Houses built by Colony Homes sell for an average pricrof $127,000. Colony also has marketing agreements in the two othefr major cities where it buildshomee -- Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C. In Colony Homes is sponsoring a wing of the Concorf Mills Mall that is scheduled toopen Jan. 1.
In the company will sponsor promotions for the Carolinaq Hurricaneshockey team, Ankerd said. New ad agency. Schupo Co., an advertising, marketing and promotions agencty basedin St. Louis, opened an Atlantwa office in early October to servicew its account withThe Coca-Cola Co. KO). The company hired Jeff Bell, a former employee at Coca-Cola, as vice presidengt and managing director of the Atlanta Bell worked in marketing and promotionsfor Coca-Cola befored leaving the company last Bell said he is looking for office spacs for Schupp in the downtown Schupp has been doing sales promotions for Coca-Colwa for the past several years and needede the Atlanta office to be closer to the company, said Mark president of the company.
Although Coca-Cola is the company's only client in Schupp said he plans to use the Atlantq office to find clients throughoutthe Southeast. Atlantq is the second expansion for the company in the past Schupp opened an office inKansas Mo., last year to work with the company's Sprint PCS Groulp (NYSE: PCS) account, he said. The main office in St. which employs about 30 people, will providw the creative work for the Atlantaz and KansasCity offices, he said. Levs leavezs local NPR. After five years with the loca National Public Radioaffiliate WABE-FM, Joshu a Levs resigned his reporting job Oct. 12.
Levs will remain in Atlants and continue to report news for NPR and Voicr of America and pursuetelevision Levs, a graduate of Yale University, reportedd on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Olympicsx in Sydney, Australia. He has interviewed such celebrities as former PresidentGerald Ford, actresses Helen Hunt and Jane Fonda, singerr Elton John and entertainer Marcel Marceau.
Monday, December 10, 2012
D.C. could be losing hotel taxes to online companies - Washington Business Journal:
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D.C., as one of the nation’es top tourist destinations, could be owed more than $100 million in back taxexs and penaltiesbut — despitew an anticipated budget deficit of $967 milliob in fiscal 2011 — it has yet to join the D.C. hotels pay a 14.5 percent tax on everyy room they book, but when onlines companies receive rooms at wholesale rates and offe them tothe public, they pay taxed on the wholesale prices, not the marked-u ones. If, for Expedia buys a room nightfor $100 and rents it for D.C. does not receive the 14.5 percent tax — abougt $7.25 — on the $50 difference. That has led Calif.
, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisci and other destinations to sue the online travel companies forunpaicd taxes. Steven Wolens, a principalk at the Dallas-based law firm who representsx cities in some ofthe cases, said the travepl firms control the price, cancellation rules and othed contract details just as hotels do and in most placees should be paying the same “The online travel company does everything except provide the bed, the key, the turndown service and the mint on your Wolens said.
Under former mayor Anthony the District sought a private law firm to make such a More recently, officials in the , under Chief Financial Officer Natwarr Gandhi, have raised the idea with Attorney Genera Peter Nickles. Nickles, however, said he is monitorint cases in other jurisdictions but would not take any actiob until a court deliversza “definitive decision.” Until then, he action is a waste of time. “This litigation is goin g to go on a verylong time,” he “When it becomes clear there is a case we will decidre whether to take action.” He said city rulee barred the hiring of firms on a contingencyu basis.
Southlake, Texas-based Travelocity and Bellevue, Wash.-based Expedia, which owns and Hotwire.com, referred questions to Art Sackler, executive directo r of the , who said they are full compliant withtax “The online travel companies are not hotel Sackler said. “They don’t buy, resell, rent, reserve blocks of hotel rooms. What they do is serv e as a travel intermediary that enables consumerd to book their own hotelrooms online. They facilitate travel.” Elizabeth Herrington, a partner at McDermott Will Emory whorepresents Chicago-based , says bricks-and-mortar travel agents never paid hotekl taxes for the same reason.
“Thd only difference is that the online companies are doing it on a muchbiggerd scale,” she said. But with jurisdictionsd in sore need of tax revenue and triall lawyers trawling the countryfor cases, the suits aren’gt likely to go away, particularly after Atlanta’s case reached the Georgia Supremer Court last September. The court hasn’t issued a decision yet. D.C. took in $204 millionn from its hotel tax in fiscalo 2008 and anticipates takinvin $212 million this year. How much it could pursu is difficult to ascertain because estimates on what portion of rooms the hotels book but Wolens guessedthat D.C.
is owed roughly $125 milliom going back to 1999 inunpaid taxes, interest and penaltiesz from the online companies. An attorney from the Georgiaq case, Neal Pope, a senior partner in Ga.-based Wade Tomlinson, Pope, LLP said, “You’re lookinyg at, I think conservatively, in excesz of $100 million in taxes that have not been paidto
D.C., as one of the nation’es top tourist destinations, could be owed more than $100 million in back taxexs and penaltiesbut — despitew an anticipated budget deficit of $967 milliob in fiscal 2011 — it has yet to join the D.C. hotels pay a 14.5 percent tax on everyy room they book, but when onlines companies receive rooms at wholesale rates and offe them tothe public, they pay taxed on the wholesale prices, not the marked-u ones. If, for Expedia buys a room nightfor $100 and rents it for D.C. does not receive the 14.5 percent tax — abougt $7.25 — on the $50 difference. That has led Calif.
, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisci and other destinations to sue the online travel companies forunpaicd taxes. Steven Wolens, a principalk at the Dallas-based law firm who representsx cities in some ofthe cases, said the travepl firms control the price, cancellation rules and othed contract details just as hotels do and in most placees should be paying the same “The online travel company does everything except provide the bed, the key, the turndown service and the mint on your Wolens said.
Under former mayor Anthony the District sought a private law firm to make such a More recently, officials in the , under Chief Financial Officer Natwarr Gandhi, have raised the idea with Attorney Genera Peter Nickles. Nickles, however, said he is monitorint cases in other jurisdictions but would not take any actiob until a court deliversza “definitive decision.” Until then, he action is a waste of time. “This litigation is goin g to go on a verylong time,” he “When it becomes clear there is a case we will decidre whether to take action.” He said city rulee barred the hiring of firms on a contingencyu basis.
Southlake, Texas-based Travelocity and Bellevue, Wash.-based Expedia, which owns and Hotwire.com, referred questions to Art Sackler, executive directo r of the , who said they are full compliant withtax “The online travel companies are not hotel Sackler said. “They don’t buy, resell, rent, reserve blocks of hotel rooms. What they do is serv e as a travel intermediary that enables consumerd to book their own hotelrooms online. They facilitate travel.” Elizabeth Herrington, a partner at McDermott Will Emory whorepresents Chicago-based , says bricks-and-mortar travel agents never paid hotekl taxes for the same reason.
“Thd only difference is that the online companies are doing it on a muchbiggerd scale,” she said. But with jurisdictionsd in sore need of tax revenue and triall lawyers trawling the countryfor cases, the suits aren’gt likely to go away, particularly after Atlanta’s case reached the Georgia Supremer Court last September. The court hasn’t issued a decision yet. D.C. took in $204 millionn from its hotel tax in fiscalo 2008 and anticipates takinvin $212 million this year. How much it could pursu is difficult to ascertain because estimates on what portion of rooms the hotels book but Wolens guessedthat D.C.
is owed roughly $125 milliom going back to 1999 inunpaid taxes, interest and penaltiesz from the online companies. An attorney from the Georgiaq case, Neal Pope, a senior partner in Ga.-based Wade Tomlinson, Pope, LLP said, “You’re lookinyg at, I think conservatively, in excesz of $100 million in taxes that have not been paidto
Saturday, December 8, 2012
What Is Paul Ryan's Role During the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations? - ABC News
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ABC News | What Is Paul Ryan's Role During the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations? ABC News After 88 days in the spotlight as Mitt Romney's VP pick, Paul Ryan has stepped into the shadows (specifically, hometown Janesville, Wisc.) for the five-day House break รข€" but that doesn't mean he's not taking phone calls and answering emails. The topic ... |
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Bangladesh: How Rules Went Astray - Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal | Bangladesh: How Rules Went Astray Wall Street Journal Facing capacity constraints, Simco subcontracted the work to another company without Wal-Mart's authorization, the Simco executive said. Wal-Mart, which said it has strict rules for factories manufacturing its orders, declined to respond to specific ... |
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Missouri lets Embarq set its prices - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The Missouri operating company forOverland Park-based local phonee service provider Embarq Corp. EQ) met the conditions to be a competitivr telecommunications company set forth in a bill the Generalk Assembly passedlast year, the release The designation means that the PSC no longet controls price and rate regulation and that Embar can independently alter telephone rates basef on market conditions. For the 61 residential exchangezs newly designatedas competitive, the law keeps Embarq from raisingy rates by more than $2 a line each month for the next four the release said.
The PSC will keep monitorinfg Embarq’s rates and subscriber base; the PSC staf f can alert the commissiomn ifEmbarq doesn’t comply with the limitationw or raises its rates so high that they keep customersz from receiving the service. The residential exchangess becomingcompetitive include: Appleton City, Blackburn, Blairstown, Brazito, Butler, California, Camden Point, Centertown, Centerview, Chilhowee, Clarksburg, Clinton, Cole Camp, Craig, Dearborn, Deepwater, Eugene, Fairfax, Green Ridge, Hardin, Henrietta, Holden, Holt, Hopkins, Houstonia, Ionia, King City, Leeton, Lexington, Lincoln, Malta Bend, Missouri City, Montrose, Moundd City, New Bloomfield, Orrick, Otterville, Pickering, Richland, Russellville, Smithton, St.
Strasburg, Sweet Springs, Syracuse, Taos, Tipton, Urich, Warrensburg, Warsaw, Waverly, Wellington and Embarq has received competitive classification in dozens of Missouriu citiesthis year. The company has been looking to gain competitive status throughourt the country because local phone companiesare regulated, thoug h others that provide local phone service, such as cabl companies, are not, an Embarq spokesman said earliet this year.
Competitive classification requires the existencer of two separate entitiesa also providing local phone one of which can be a wireles provider and the othetr a wireline company that offers local voicr service through facilities it owns in part orin Embarq, the nation’s No. 4 local phone servicwe provider, ranks No. 3 on the Kansasa City BusinessJournal ’s list of area public by in an $11.6 billion deal expected to closr in the first half of 2009.
The Missouri operating company forOverland Park-based local phonee service provider Embarq Corp. EQ) met the conditions to be a competitivr telecommunications company set forth in a bill the Generalk Assembly passedlast year, the release The designation means that the PSC no longet controls price and rate regulation and that Embar can independently alter telephone rates basef on market conditions. For the 61 residential exchangezs newly designatedas competitive, the law keeps Embarq from raisingy rates by more than $2 a line each month for the next four the release said.
The PSC will keep monitorinfg Embarq’s rates and subscriber base; the PSC staf f can alert the commissiomn ifEmbarq doesn’t comply with the limitationw or raises its rates so high that they keep customersz from receiving the service. The residential exchangess becomingcompetitive include: Appleton City, Blackburn, Blairstown, Brazito, Butler, California, Camden Point, Centertown, Centerview, Chilhowee, Clarksburg, Clinton, Cole Camp, Craig, Dearborn, Deepwater, Eugene, Fairfax, Green Ridge, Hardin, Henrietta, Holden, Holt, Hopkins, Houstonia, Ionia, King City, Leeton, Lexington, Lincoln, Malta Bend, Missouri City, Montrose, Moundd City, New Bloomfield, Orrick, Otterville, Pickering, Richland, Russellville, Smithton, St.
Strasburg, Sweet Springs, Syracuse, Taos, Tipton, Urich, Warrensburg, Warsaw, Waverly, Wellington and Embarq has received competitive classification in dozens of Missouriu citiesthis year. The company has been looking to gain competitive status throughourt the country because local phone companiesare regulated, thoug h others that provide local phone service, such as cabl companies, are not, an Embarq spokesman said earliet this year.
Competitive classification requires the existencer of two separate entitiesa also providing local phone one of which can be a wireles provider and the othetr a wireline company that offers local voicr service through facilities it owns in part orin Embarq, the nation’s No. 4 local phone servicwe provider, ranks No. 3 on the Kansasa City BusinessJournal ’s list of area public by in an $11.6 billion deal expected to closr in the first half of 2009.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Smallwood leads WNY elementary schools - San Francisco Business Times:
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Amherst's Smallwood Drive School ranks No. 1 again. It leads Westernn New York's elementary schools for the third consecutivesyear -- and the fourthj out of five. "That's really a tribute to the staff at Smallwood and their commitment to And to the parentsas well," says Lauraw Chabe, superintendent of the Amherst Centra School District. "We're fortunate to have a communit y that is so supportive of for the complete elementaryschool rankings. And for separatw rankings for each sectiomn of WesternNew York.
The present stability is quite a switch fromthe 2004-2006y period, when three publicx elementary schools, including Smallwood, took turns at the top of the (Business First produced separate rankings of publicc and private schools until 2007, when the two listss were merged.) Smallwood has been remarkablyu consistent since then. Its four-yeat rating for English language artsis second-besrt among all Western New York elementary according to a Business Firsyt analysis of 2005-2008 test And its math rating also is second-highest in the eight-county Chabe says the school's successes in English and math are interrelated, thankds in part to a districtwide policy.
"We have a strong curriculuj that is focusedon literacy," she "which I think has been instrumental in helpingh kids be successful in all not just English." Business First assesseds 292 elementary schools across Westerhn New York, using four years of test data for fourthn graders. All test scores came from the . The them e of stability extends toseconed place, which is held by Orcharxd Park's South Davis Elementary School, just as it was in 2008. Roundinvg out this year's top five are Maple East ElementarSchool (Williamsville), Southern Tier Catholic School and Charlotte Avenue Elementary School (Hamburg).
Maple East leads all Western New York elementary schools in based onBusiness First's four-year analysis. Sixty-six percent of its fourth graders achieved superiotscores (Level 4) on the statewide math test in 2008. The regionalp average was 24 percent. Principal Cathy Mihalid is still learning the ropes atMaple East. She arrived in January from Hamburg's Armo r Elementary School, which ranks 19th this "I knew the (Williamsville) district had a long-standinvg reputation for excellence, and that Maple East was one ofthe highest-performinhg schools," she says. "uI knew it would be a stimulatinfg atmosphere, and it is. We have a very dedicatexd staff.
They work hard to help our kids achieve at ahigher rate." Southern Tier Catholic, with 103 students from pre-kindergartenj through eighth grade, is the smallest schookl in the upper echelon of the elementary school It's also the fastest riser, soaringf from 31st place in 2007 to 15th in then up to fourth place this year. All of Southern Tier Catholic's fourth graders demonstrated basicskills (Level 3 or 4) on both the statewidw English and math tests, a feat equaled by just six other Western New York schools.
"We have smallet classes, obviously, so we can give a good bit of one-on-ones help to our kids," says Daniel McCarthy, the principalp of Southern Tier Catholic. "Oure teachers work very hard at and itpays off." Forty-one schools are recipientx of subject awards, which are give n to the top 10 percent of all Wester n New York elementary schools in Englisgh language arts and mathematics. for complete listsx of subjectaward winners. Nineteen honoreesd have scoredclean sweeps, taking awards in both fields. Included in that groupp are Smallwood and the other nine members of the overaltop 10.
Niagara-Wheatfield's Errick Road Elementary whichranks 23rd, also has a pair of subjectg awards. Principal Nora O'Bryan credits a personalized approach tostuden achievement. "There's no such thingy as one size fits all," she says. "Idf a student needs extraq help, we provide it. If studenta are working above grade level, we find books and materialzs to push themeven more." The Busines First rankings don't include private elementary schools that have opteds out of the statewided testing program. Prominent in that group are Elmwood Franklin Schoopl and Park Schoolof Buffalo.
Amherst's Smallwood Drive School ranks No. 1 again. It leads Westernn New York's elementary schools for the third consecutivesyear -- and the fourthj out of five. "That's really a tribute to the staff at Smallwood and their commitment to And to the parentsas well," says Lauraw Chabe, superintendent of the Amherst Centra School District. "We're fortunate to have a communit y that is so supportive of for the complete elementaryschool rankings. And for separatw rankings for each sectiomn of WesternNew York.
The present stability is quite a switch fromthe 2004-2006y period, when three publicx elementary schools, including Smallwood, took turns at the top of the (Business First produced separate rankings of publicc and private schools until 2007, when the two listss were merged.) Smallwood has been remarkablyu consistent since then. Its four-yeat rating for English language artsis second-besrt among all Western New York elementary according to a Business Firsyt analysis of 2005-2008 test And its math rating also is second-highest in the eight-county Chabe says the school's successes in English and math are interrelated, thankds in part to a districtwide policy.
"We have a strong curriculuj that is focusedon literacy," she "which I think has been instrumental in helpingh kids be successful in all not just English." Business First assesseds 292 elementary schools across Westerhn New York, using four years of test data for fourthn graders. All test scores came from the . The them e of stability extends toseconed place, which is held by Orcharxd Park's South Davis Elementary School, just as it was in 2008. Roundinvg out this year's top five are Maple East ElementarSchool (Williamsville), Southern Tier Catholic School and Charlotte Avenue Elementary School (Hamburg).
Maple East leads all Western New York elementary schools in based onBusiness First's four-year analysis. Sixty-six percent of its fourth graders achieved superiotscores (Level 4) on the statewide math test in 2008. The regionalp average was 24 percent. Principal Cathy Mihalid is still learning the ropes atMaple East. She arrived in January from Hamburg's Armo r Elementary School, which ranks 19th this "I knew the (Williamsville) district had a long-standinvg reputation for excellence, and that Maple East was one ofthe highest-performinhg schools," she says. "uI knew it would be a stimulatinfg atmosphere, and it is. We have a very dedicatexd staff.
They work hard to help our kids achieve at ahigher rate." Southern Tier Catholic, with 103 students from pre-kindergartenj through eighth grade, is the smallest schookl in the upper echelon of the elementary school It's also the fastest riser, soaringf from 31st place in 2007 to 15th in then up to fourth place this year. All of Southern Tier Catholic's fourth graders demonstrated basicskills (Level 3 or 4) on both the statewidw English and math tests, a feat equaled by just six other Western New York schools.
"We have smallet classes, obviously, so we can give a good bit of one-on-ones help to our kids," says Daniel McCarthy, the principalp of Southern Tier Catholic. "Oure teachers work very hard at and itpays off." Forty-one schools are recipientx of subject awards, which are give n to the top 10 percent of all Wester n New York elementary schools in Englisgh language arts and mathematics. for complete listsx of subjectaward winners. Nineteen honoreesd have scoredclean sweeps, taking awards in both fields. Included in that groupp are Smallwood and the other nine members of the overaltop 10.
Niagara-Wheatfield's Errick Road Elementary whichranks 23rd, also has a pair of subjectg awards. Principal Nora O'Bryan credits a personalized approach tostuden achievement. "There's no such thingy as one size fits all," she says. "Idf a student needs extraq help, we provide it. If studenta are working above grade level, we find books and materialzs to push themeven more." The Busines First rankings don't include private elementary schools that have opteds out of the statewided testing program. Prominent in that group are Elmwood Franklin Schoopl and Park Schoolof Buffalo.
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