From the Hastings-on-Hudson school district…
Dear Hastings Community Member:

At the June 2, 2008 Board of Education meeting, Board Trustee Eva Neubauer Alligood announced her resignation, effective June 30, 2008.  The Board then began discussing the best way to fill the vacated seat.  In accordance with New York State Education Law, the Board could hold a [...]

From the school district…
June 23, 2008
In the event of inclement weather on Tuesday, June 24th, the Middle School graduation ceremony will be held in the High School gymnasium at the regularly scheduled time of 6:00 p.m.  We will be sending 4 admission tickets home on Tuesday with the graduates. The tickets will only be needed [...]

Received via email…
Dear Ms. Costello,
My name is Amanda Marello and I am a 2004 alum of Holy Rosary School in Hawthorne. I would like to thank you for spending the time to write about the emotional response to the closure of Catholic schools throughout the area. It is truly a shame to think that [...]

I’m not a smoker, but I do know the only way some of my friends got through college was by writing those dreaded term papers with a coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

Those days, however, may soon be over.

The state Senate on Monday passed a bill that bans smoking in college [...]

Advanced Placement students led fourth-graders through a series of hands-on physics experiments today at Harrison High School. What a blast it was to be in the midst of all the excitement! Be sure to check out the video for a little flavor of the event!

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Besides the expensive parking at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, Yonkers taxpayers will also foot a hefty bill of $42,173.70 for their children’s graduation ceremonies.

That’s the tab for four high school graduation ceremonies on June 29.

Yonkers High School students will use their school’s auditorium because their senior class is small, unlike the large [...]

Ardsley Schools Superintendent Jason Friedman said a middle-school student will be placed in an alternative setting until at least the end of the school year after threats he allegedly made caused the school to be evacuated yesterday right as state tests began.

The decision comes after approximately 150 parents rallied at the school early this morning. [...]

ARDSLEY — Parents protested at Ardsley Middle School this morning over the administration’s handling of a teen’s threats against individual students and the school.

The move was the latest showing of frustration since police on Monday began investigating claims that a 14-year-old boy posed a threat to students because of threats that had been overheard.

Yesterday, the [...]

The following letter went out last night to Ardsley parents…  
Open Letter to the Ardsley Community

Dear Fellow Community Members:

We are sure by now that everyone is aware of the events that have taken place at the Ardsley Middle School the past two days. Our community has become the focus of numerous news stories and it [...]

Students in the Transportation Academy classes at Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES’ Tech Center recently got to look under the hood of a car designed by General Motors that runs by electricity powered by hydrogen.

“This is going to be the future,” commented senior Auto Mechanics student Yamilette Rodriguez from Peekskill.

The car — a Chevy Equinox — was [...]

My colleague Steve Lieberman reports that…

Nyack — Six high school seniors will share $5,000 in college scholarships on Saturday through a fund named for two Nyack officers murdered in the line of duty.The O’Grady-Brown Scholarship Awards breakfast starts at 10 a.m. at the Nyack Seaport. The keynote speaker will be Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe.

The [...]

Fourteen teams of Croton fifth-grader recently turned the school’s old gymnasium into what looked and sounded like the floor of the NYC Stock Exchange. Each enthusiastic team was trying to entice visitors to invest in their Mutual Fund.

“We’ve got hot stocks, do you?” “We make your money magical.” “We make money so easy, even a [...]

As part of its multiyear project to develop a K-12 Education for Sustainability Curriculum, which will be piloted in grades six through eight in the 2008-2009 school year, the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES Curriculum Council hosted a two-day training workshop this month.

The curriculum writers — middle school teachers from Putnam and Northern and Southern Westchester school [...]

The annual Carroll F. Johnson Scholastic Achievement Dinner, which is sponsored by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents, this week recognized valedictorians and salutatorians from districts throughout the Lower Hudson Valley, as well as other exceptional students.

In all, 18 scholarships were awarded, thanks to the contributions of several local companies and individuals.

“These students represent [...]

The Mount Vernon School district will hold a breakfast on Monday to honor 14-year-old Yassine El Yousfi, the Longfellow Middle School student who made it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Sadly Yassine was eliminated during the preliminary rounds when he missed the obscure word “tetrapteran,” which means an insect with four wings.

The school’s PTA will [...]