SARATOGA SPRINGS - High school seniors helped senior citizens in Saratoga. This was the 8th year that members of the Saratoga Springs High School Honor Society wrapped gifts for needy senior citizens.

All of the gifts are donated. Organizers say 200 seniors in Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties will receive about 1,000 presents this year. It takes about 45 students less than two hours to wrap all of the gifts.

The MacFadden Administration Building in the Saratoga Springs City School District is now displaying art created by 140 of the district’s students.

The art show debuted Wednesday, Dec. 7 and was attended by student artists and their families. The students are from all six elementary schools, the Maple Avenue Middle School and the high school.

The students used different mediums, references to various artists, styles and art history in their work. Michael Piccirillo, assistant superintendent for secondary education and Kate Santamaria, art department head organized the gallery.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York was the only state to see a decline in its math score for fourth graders in a national assessment of public schools, which shows mostly stagnant academic progress over the last two years.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a widely cited testing program, found New York's fourth graders who took the math test in the spring had a lower average score than the national average, and lower than 30 other states. The 2011 New York score was lower than the 2009 score, but still higher than the 1992 score, the earliest comparison included in Tuesday's report.

Nationally in 2011, 40 percent of fourth-graders scored above the proficiency level, compared with 38 percent in 2009. In New York, the numbers went in the other direction: 36 percent were proficient in 2011, a drop from 40 percent in 2009.