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Amy Vernon joined The Journal News in 2000 as education editor for the Westchester and Putnam editions. She came to Rockand as metro editor in 2001. Raised on Long Island, Amy is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and has worked in South Florida and the Phoenix metro area. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, two sons and very understanding mother-in-law. She watches entirely too much television, but is trying hard not to let her children do the same. She is as big a fan of Curious George on PBS as she is of many of her favorite "grown-up" shows. Reach her at avernon@lohud.com or 845-578-2425.
E-mail Amy Vernon at avernon@lohud.com
Fresh off the e-mail from the Columbus Elementary School Chess Club, I find out that several of the team’s players were in Pittsburgh Mother’s Day weekend for the Elementary Chess Nationals Tournament.
Above are the students who went to the Bert Lerner Elementary Chess Nationals at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburg. Front Row – [...]
We’ll be posting the graduation lists for all the high schools and colleges in the Lower Hudson Valley as they occur, here on The Hall Monitor.As the graduations occur, we’ll post the lists of all the graduates from Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties. This post will have the names of all the schools, and as [...]
St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill held its 51st Commencement exercises on Friday. Sorry for the delay in getting this list posted. Here’s the full list of all the LoHud graduates (and here’s a link to the photo gallery for this ceremony):
The other day, I was going through my reams of e-mail and found this note from the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA, to those in the know) that outlined the results of a state Ed Department “outreach effort to determine how the department could better ‘support student learning and school improvement.’”
They used a [...]
Steven White, who is running for the East Ramapo Board of Education, is holding a rally at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Kurtz Center, 9 N. Main St. in Spring Valley.
White said his rally would include information on the upcoming May 20 school board and budget vote.
There are six candidates for three seats, but school [...]
A free six-part workshop for parents of children with special needs starts tomorrow at the Rockland Community College Spring Valley Extension, 185 N. Main St.
The sessions will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 6, 8, 15, 20 and 22.
“Education Rights and Responsibilities for Children with Special Needs” is the workshop title and it [...]
In other news, dogs bark.
OK, I don’t really mean to make light. School budgets are serious business and rising budgets take their toll on all taxpayers.
And the Empire Center for New York State Policy has issued its 2008-09 School Budget Spotlight (download the report as a PDF) showing school districts are increasing per-pupil spending for [...]
My colleague, Jane Lerner, this morning got an invitation to an event where Denzel Washington and his wife, Pauletta, will award two scholarship for research in neuroscience.
The ceremony will be held at Mount Vernon High School “to help persuade students from Denzel’s hometown to consider careers in the sciences because they offer the potential to [...]
One thing most people are in agreement on in New York when it comes to schools is that school taxes are onerous and it’s probably not the best system to base school funding on.
Unfortunately, that’s where the agreement ends, as no one can seem to come up with an alternative that most folks can get [...]
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