A local African-American philanthropic group, the F. Willa Davis Club, plans to hold its annual scholarship luncheon tomorrow at The Greentree in New Rochelle.

Honorees include Karen  Hill, Harriet Tubman Home President; Reverend Lamont S.  Granby, Assistant Pastor of New Rochelle’s Bethesda Baptist Church; and funeral director Lawrence Watkins

New Rochelle High  School senior Syretta Gladden will [...]

Check out Diana Costello’s story today about an Ossining school administrator who went with some choice words in a letter for teacher appreciation week. Unfortunately, the prose was not his own.

In her story, Diana writes: “Board of Education President Alice Joselow would not comment on whether the school board would take any disciplinary action or [...]

State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, has announced the AFFIRM Ed Task Force will hold a Town-Hall Meeting on Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Greenburgh Town Hall.

The name is an acronym for Alternative Funding and Fiscal Reform for Public Education; Stewart-Cousins said in a news release it is meant to “explore alternative sources [...]

 The Urusline School sent us a writeup of a recent international celebration:
 “On April 25th, The Ursuline School’s Social Studies teacher, Carolyn Gallaher and her 6th grade class joined together with their families in the cafeteria to display their year-long projects.  The 6th Grade girls adopt a European or Middle Eastern country, building on their social [...]

Jacqueline Powers of Larchmont has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright award to Morocco. Powers, who graduated from Georgetown with a bachelor of arts in French in 2006, “will research the degree to which the 2004 Moudawana reforms have contributed to women’s socio-economic empowerment,” according to an [...]

Up to 2,500 middle school students from across the county are expected to attend a special college fair Monday at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. The event is targeted to students in grades 7 through 8, and sponsored by the Southern Westchester BOCES Center for Career Services. Students from New Rochelle, White Plains, [...]

A team from John Jay High School placed first among 38 high school teams in the 17th annual Hudson Valley Regional Envirothon, an environmental science competition held recently in Fishkill.

The event was sponsored by the Westchester County Soil and Water Conservation District and the county Department of Planning.  Competing Westchester teams came from Hastings, John [...]

Westchester County Executive Andy Spano this afternoon will formally recognize the 75 students from public middle and high schools throughout Westchester who have been accepted into county’s Westchester Scholars program.

According to the county, “The program was created by Spano in 1999 to give low-income students the opportunity to benefit from the same technology as their [...]

Students and faculty representing over thirty career and technical programs from Yonkers public high schools showcase their work at Yonkers Public Schools Career and Technical Education Day Monday, May 19.

The event takes place from 10:00 a.m-2:00 p.m. at the Riverfront Library, One Larkin Center in Yonkers.

The special event is meant to show the role that [...]

This announcement recently landed in our in-box:

The Bedford Audubon Society has announced that it will award its Marty McGuire Scholarship to Rye Country Day School sophomore Scott Wieman at ceremony at Katonah Village Hall on May 14th. Scott was chosen from a list of highly qualified candidates from all over Northern Westchester and Eastern Putnam [...]

Fifteen low-income students from 10 high schools today were each awarded scholarships of up to $10,000 over 4 years through the county’s Jandon Scholars program.

The money comes from the Jandon Foundation, a private foundation created by Jane and Donald Cecil of Harrison. The program has handed out 125 college scholarships since 1999; by the end [...]

Non-profit housing agency Westhab Inc. is holding an event this week to mark National Volunteer Recognition Week, and will give Manhattanville College students its “Presidential Service Award” for their work with homeless children.

The event is Wednesday evening at the college’s Reid Castle.

A full list of honorees after the jump:

Students from seven Westchester schools will compete Tuesday in the Hudson Valley Regional Envirothon.

What’s an envirothon, you ask? Well, county officials tell us, “The event is organized around five areas: soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife and a current environmental issue. The winning team from each participating county is eligible to go on to the NYS Envirothon [...]

Last week Monroe College cut the ribbon on Ustin Hall, a 32,000 square-foot building that is the new Bronx campus home to the King Graduate School of Business and the Monroe School of Business. The School of Business will be operating a Center for Entreprenurial Excellence there; the new building will also house the [...]

A student from the French-American School of New York recently placed ninth in a  worldwide “French Kangaroo Math” contest.

Matthias Wickenburg took the honor out of 8,000 eleventh graders around the world. More than 3.5 million francophone students in Grades 3 to 12 participated in the worldwide competition in March. The test consists of 24 math [...]