Buffalo's City Honors is the only public school around that offers the International Baccalaureate program, a series of courses that are a step above Advanced Placement and, therefore, further challenges the brightest minds. It also helps students get into the best colleges and universities. At East Aurora High School, classrooms are set up as suites. Each has two classrooms, connected by a center room with five computers that hook into the classrooms. There are also two teacher offices attached.
Grand Island uses support staff to keep an eye on students in the halls.
So does Lackawanna. It's much less expensive than using teachers, who are then free to do what they are supposed to do - teach. Holland Central has a computerized music composition course. There's a keyboard at each work station attached to a computer. Students can write music.