WASHINGTON – The Campaign for College Affordability released the following statement from Robert M. Brandon, coordinator of the Campaign for College Affordability, on President Obama’s announcement of the American Graduation Initiative, which invests $12 billion over 10 years in community colleges:

“The President’s commitment to investing in community colleges is a testament to the value these [...]

From Purchase College…

Shawn Trail, of Beacon, N.Y., a recent Purchase College master’s degree recipient has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Denmark where he will conduct doctoral research at the University of Aalborg in Copenhagen. Mr. Trail will be based at the Medialogy Institute where he will engage in independent research to design and develop [...]

From Mercy College…

The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) announced that Dr. Kimberly R. Cline, president of Mercy College, has been named to its 2009-2010 board of trustees.

CICU represents the chief executives of New York’s more than 100 independent (private, not-for-profit) colleges and universities on issues of public policy. It is the formal organizational [...]

From Iona College…

What do Plato and NATO have in common? On the surface, there doesn’t appear to be a connection between the fourth century B.C. Greek philosopher and today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But, that isn’t the way Dr. Brian Nickerson, Iona College Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, sees it. Indeed, Dr. [...]

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the following statement yesterday regarding the National Center for Education Statistics’ new report, “Achievement Gaps: How Black and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress,” which analyzes black-white achievement gaps at both the national and state level and [...]

From Westchester County…

An innovative pilot program by the Westchester County Department of Social Services is making a difference in the lives of dozens of kids in Yonkers by reinforcing the importance of regular school attendance and academic achievement.

About 65 youngsters have charted significant improvement in their attendance records since January when Westchester became one of [...]

From the Alcott School….

SCARSDALE — Alcott School is on the move once again!  Our Special Education Preschool Program, known as “Little Class”, will be moving in September to our location at 535 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry.

The “Little Class” serves 3 and 4 year old children with special needs in small structured language based classrooms.  We [...]

The Milton Elementary School in Rye, NY, has been awarded a $3000 grant from the Rye YMCA to develop an edible gardens program for launch in Fall 2009.  Announcement of the grant was made by Gregg Howells, Executive Director of the Rye Y.

Over the course of the next year, the Y will track the development [...]

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS – Two students were recently awarded the Spirit of Service Scholarship by the Regional Youth Leadership Organization (RYLO). Suzanne Molino (Briarcliff High School) will apply the scholarship toward her studies at Northeastern University, where she plans to participate in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. Daniel Kupferschmid (Somers High School) will apply his scholarship [...]

Citing an unemployment rate among youth at over 20% nationally, SuperFutures.org today announced that 30 scholarships are available to help students fund the cost to attend a one-of-a-kind leadership program at the United Nations and Pace University – all designed to help students better prepare for the working world.

The scholarship deadline is July 17, 2009 [...]

From the Bedford school district…
The Bedford Central School District is announcing an “All Call” for membership on the district’s citizen advisory committees. If you have a willingness to volunteer and possess interest, experience, and expertise in a particular area, please consider applying. We have designed a committee application to make the process as uncomplicated as [...]

Thursday was the 45th anniversary of the enactment of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in public schools.

In a statement marking the anniversary, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that the nation’s public schools still have a tremendous amount of work to do to ensure students of color [...]

This past April, the Alliance for Just Solutions, a social justice project of the YWCA of White Plains and Central Westchester and the United Way of Westchester and Putnam, co-sponsored a unique event called Stand Against Racism.

Held at the YWCA, the event offered a full day of activities and presentations to raise awareness of racism [...]

From the Peekskill school district….

This year the One River-One Read summer campaign will provide adult readers an opportunity to receive a well known work of fiction, free of charge, as a means to encourage reading in the community.

Superintendent Judith Johnson in a quote on the virtues of adult reading programs said “children of parents who read, become children [...]

Furnace Woods Library Media Specialist Elaine Desimone will retire at the end of June after 43 years of service to several generations of students.

Desimone arrived in 1966, just prior to Furnace Woods opening its doors. “I was just going to try it for a little while,” she said. “One year led to another and another, [...]