government services blog
by Chris Riso
ASAP Diocesan & Regional School Finance Reports due to Fr. Steve
6/13/25 Complete 2025-26 Professional Development Plan (Recommended)
6/13/25 Complete 12 Required Drills; Four must be Lockdown Drills
TBA NYSED Nonpublic Safety Equipment (NPSE) Claims Due
TBA NYSED Elementary School AIS Claims Due
8/1/25 NYSED MST/STEM Grant & AMTS Art/Music Grant Submission Deadline
Finance Reports Due to Fr. Steve: Fr. Steve asked for your 2025-26 school budget, a current income statement, and a current balance sheet last week. Thank you to those schools who sent him those reports. For the remaining schools, please send those reports to him this week or reach out to him with any concerns you may have.
Regents Scoring Workshop Documentation: The ability for you to claim Regents Scoring Workshop Hours on Mandate 4 of your Mandated Services claim is a great financial benefit to your school, reimbursing you for the hours that your teachers spent prior to exam scoring to prepare for the exam scoring as is required by NYSED. Therefore, let me remind you of how you should be verifying that these workshops took place along with the hours your teachers spent in these scoring workshops. Please be sure that you create and save Regents Exam Scoring Workshop agendas and sign-in sheets for each exam your teachers correct. These documents will substantiate any Regents Scoring Workshop hours you claim on your 2024-25 Mandated Services Claim. NYS mandates that scorers receive “task-specific training on the actual administration of the exam[s]” (wording differs for each exam) so be sure to claim these hours spent training to score; this would include collaborative work analyzing the anchor papers provided in the scoring manual. It would not be unreasonable for 1 or 2 hours to be scheduled for this training for each Regents Exam you score so make sure your day-of-scoring agenda shows this training time. Here is an example of a day-of-scoring agenda, with room for teachers to sign in:
Regents Algebra I (Common Core) Exam Scoring Agenda June 20, 2025
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8:30am – 10:30am Training Raters to Score Student Responses
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10:30am – 3:00pm Scoring Exams (with 1/2 hour lunch)
If you want, you can leave blanks for the start and end times so you can fill them in with the actual times you spent in training. Be sure to also have an area below with lines for teachers to print their names and sign in. Once this form has printed names and signatures, make a copy for your 2024-25 Mandated Services folder. If you (or the school your teacher scored with) did not create these agendas last January and require teachers to sign in to each workshop session, I recommend that you take the time now to recreate those documents and get the teachers involved to sign in (albeit after the fact) so you have forms to verify the hours you are claiming for your 2024-25 claim. I know that these workshops occurred because they are mandated prior to exam scoring – just make sure you have the paperwork to verify that these sessions actually occurred and can show who was in attendance. Please call me if you need further explanation on this.
Diocesan Job Opportunity - Ogdensburg: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg is seeking an Assistant Director of Education. The position provides leadership in curriculum development for Catholic Schools and planning, development and implementation of parish faith formation programs. Applicants must be a practicing Catholic with experience as a school administrator. Applicants should have a master’s degree in education or School Administration. Salary: $54,894 – $67,743. Submit letter of interest, resume and three professional references to: Human Resources Office, Diocese of Ogdensburg, P.O. Box 369, Ogdensburg, NY 13669 or email ksnover@rcdony.org. Deadline for application is June 13, 2025.
