The Mount Vernon school district could save $12,313 per year if it shut down its computers when they aren’t needed. Mount Vernon was one of seven school districts that the Office of the State Comptroller studied to see how much could be saved by powering down.

In its audit, the Comptroller recommended that school districts and [...]

Two Mamaroneck High students were among the newly-elected state officer team of the Future Business Leaders of America who recently attended training in Greenwich, N.Y. Elias Everett will serve as state president this year and Giancarlo Riso will serve as a vice president for Westchester and Rockland counties.

The training was meant to develop ideas for [...]

The Spokesman-Review newspaper out in Spokane, Washington has been reporting on a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into a phony diploma mill based in that city that sold fake degrees to almost 10,000 people.

Today, the paper posted a list of buyers and their purported degrees, some of which allegedly invoked the name of real institutions. [...]

Earlier this spring, The Journal News featured a story about a Rye Brook student, Alex Dreschler, and his father, Robert, who founded a charity to give laptops to deserving high school graduates as they headed to college. Called “To the Top with Laptops,” it originated in Port Chester and spread this year to Yonkers and [...]

The George M. Davis Elementary School in New Rochelle is home to a renovated playground, and on Tuesday Board of Education President Cindy Babcock-Deutsch joined Principal William Harrell in officially opening the gate.

On hand was Board of Education member Sara Richmond, Superintendent of Schools Richard Organisciak, Assistant Superintendent for Business Administration John Quinn, Assistant Principal [...]

A number of Ardsley Middle School parents say they will keep their children home from school until the administration removes a student who allegedly has made a number of serious threats, Diana Costello reports.

Here’s more from her:

“Tomorrow may be the day the kid decides to snap,” said Dana Price, 37, a mother of two students [...]

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 [...]