Purchase College reports that  Jon Esser, Associate Dean of the Purchase College School of the Arts, has received a $16,000 grant from the Dana Foundation’s ArtsBridge America program, via Lawrence University. The grant will fund four School of the Arts students to be ArtsBridge Scholars, teaching the arts to children in underserved schools through residencies.

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The editorial board here has updated, and in some cases amended, the list of dates and times for interviews with candidates seeking the paper’s op/ed endorsement. Here’s the full list:

Interview schedule
Westchester
Ardsley: 3 p.m., Monday, May 5
Blind Brook: 3 p.m., Thursday, May 1
Briarcliff Manor: noon, Wednesday, May 7
Chappaqua: 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 29
Eastchester: 4 p.m., Tuesday, [...]

Running for school board or know someone who is? Alert them to the following note from our Editorial Board:

Candidates in contested school board races in the May 20 election are invited to discuss the issues and their campaigns in endorsement interviews with The Journal News Editorial Board. As in the past, these discussions will [...]

Paul J. Donahue, founder and director of Child Development Associates in Scarsdale, will speak at the Wooster school in Danbury, Conn., on May 15 about “the influence of computers, video games, and other forms of technology on our children.” His talk is the second lecture in the school’s “Focus on Ethical Education” speaker series, aimed [...]

Pop artist Charles Fazzino recently donated his time and efforts to work with the 2008 Ursuline School AP Art Class to create a large, three-dimensional painting celebrating the school and its heritage. The resulting work, “Ring Day at Ursuline” has been permanently installed at the school.

Fazzino, who has a studio in New Rochelle, has motivations [...]

Purchase College’s Joe Williams Scholars will perform at a jazz concert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Choral Hall of the Music Building with special guests vocalist Cyrille-Aimee Daudel and drummer Dan McGuiness.

The five Jazz Studies students are on scholarship at Purchase College through a program established by the late jazz vocalist Joe Williams. The [...]

Amy Kirkham, a senior at Mamaroneck High School, is one of about 560 semifinalists in the 2008 Presidential Scholars Program, the school has announced. The group was winnowed from more than 3,000 candidates on the basis of their superior achievements, leadership qualities, character and community and school involvement.  Finalists will be announced in May.

Leslie Cohen, assistant vice president for human resources at Empire State College at the State University of New York is embarking on a solo bike ride across New York state to raise money for scholarships at the college. He plans to ride more than 1,000 miles in one month, from April 18 to May 19, [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he is subpoenaing BOCES districts statewide because they may have been complicit in listing part-time lawyers as full-time employees to get additional state tax dollars.

Cuomo is targeting the BOCES districts that operate regional services for a number of public school districts. Cuomo says the [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Lay teachers set up picket lines outside the New York Archdiocese headquarters and a Roman Catholic school Friday, hoping to call attention to their contract dispute during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the city.

“The pope’s theme is hope and we want hope that we can get a contract,” said Charles Chesnavage, [...]

The Weekday Nursery School of Christ United Methodist Church in New Rochelle spent this week highlighting the artist talents of the 2, 3, and 4 year olds who attend. The exhibit in its halls was planned to coincide with the national celebration called “The Week of the Young Child.” The art exhibit will remain through [...]

Students at Valhalla Middle School last week raised $3,392 at a volleyball event for Operation Smile, which sends volunteers around the world to repair childhood facial deformities. With another $1,000 from Axa Equitable Life and an agreement by the Annenberg Foundation to double the amount raised, that brought the grand total to $8,784, which principal [...]

Julia S. Chung has been appointed as a new assistant principal at Rye High School. She’ll start July 1 and replace Wayne Matteis who is retiring after 16 years in the position.
Chung most recently has served as Assistant Principal at South East High School in South Gate, California. Among the highlights of her work [...]

Richard Leslie, a journalism student at Purchase College, sent us this report and picture from Monday night’s student-loan forum at the Westchester County Center in White Plains:

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Westchester County Executive Andy Spano held a public forum at the Westchester County Center Monday to address concerns and options of paying for [...]

Students at Mark Twain Middle School in Yonkers will get a chance to hear from authors, journalists and critics at the school’s first ever Writers Day tomorrow. The event is part of the school’s celebration of National Library Week, and will include panel discussions, individual classroom presentations by the writers, and a “Meet and Greet” [...]