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The education editor at LoHud.com/The Journal News, Lanning Taliaferro started out at the paper in 1989 covering Ossining, which was a great way to get to know her new hometown.
Born and bred in Baltimore, she is still amazed at the system of government in New York.
She skewed Brown University's four-year completion stats by taking a semester off to find herself, only to return and major in English.
She and her husband Jim have two children, both products of the Ossining public schools. The elder graduated from SUNY Stony Brook. The younger is studying at the University of Toronto.
She spends her spare time playing in a steel band and studying theology, which amuses her family and friends. Reach her at ltaliafe@lohud.com.
E-mail Lanning Taliaferro at ltaliafe@lohud.com
The first full day of the New York State School Boards Association has been derailed, as conferees have been evacuated due to smoke in the lobby.
Staff Writer Alice Gomstyn reports from the scene:
“The evacuation left conference attendees gathered in bunches on the sidewalk outside the Sheraton Hotel and Tower at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street.
I [...]
My colleague Stacy Anderson tells me some teachers were offended and upset by the Human Rights Commission event at Pleasantville High School last Thursday.
You can read about the event and its context here. The first session was for school staff from Pleasantville, Briarcliff and Pocantico Hills. The evening session was open to the public and [...]
The New York State School Boards Association holds its annual conference next week.
Reporter Randi Weiner will be there, blogging, on Friday. I’ll be on a panel Saturday morning talking about the Internet’s effect on communication and media coverage of schools and education issues.
It’s a jam-packed three days of seminars and workshops on everything from school [...]
Gov. Eliot Spitzer told administrators of independent and religious schools today that he would work to build a political consensus for a $1,000 tuition tax deduction for middle class and working class parents who send children to private school, says our colleague Cara Mathews, who covers education in Albany for the Gannett News Bureau.
Spitzer proposed [...]
Plans for a new institution of higher learning in Mount Pleasant from a controversial, conservative Catholic order are up for public discussion tonight.
A group called CAMP, or Citizens of Action for Mount Pleasant, is calling for town residents and residents of the Valhalla school district to show up at tonight’s town Planning Board meeting to [...]
The Byram Hills Board of Education just sent out a press release saying that John Chambers, who’s been superintendent in Byram for seven years and was schools chief in Bronxville before that, will retire in June.
Here he is assisting with the ribbon cutting at Wampus Elementary School in February. The district held a ceremony [...]
Some important local milestones – and some dedicated local educators – will be honored at one of the annual teachers’ institutes in the Archdiocese of New York.
Assumption School in Peekskill is celebrating its centennial.
Albertus Magnus High School in Bardonia, St. Anthony of Padua in West Harrison, St. Columbanus in Cortlandt, Maria Regina High School in [...]
Thomas Shaheen died in Illinois, where he retired.
Here’s the obituary sent to us by the funeral home:
Congratulations to Farragut Middle School and the Hastings district. Here’s the press release just sent out by the state education department.
Neil Rochelle, the superintendent of the Iroquois school system in Elma, is writing not just one but three blogs for his district.
One is for students, one is for the community, and one is about re-inventing the American high school. Check out all three blogs here.
I met him yesterday at the fall conference of the [...]
so sorry!
The weekend word was nonplus: to put at a loss as to what to think or say; bewilder.
Today’s is jejune, and I’ve got to say this is not the definition I remember from SAT days: dull; lacking in nutrition; childish. Lacking in nutrition? I always thought it had something to do with immaturity of [...]
A press kit came in this morning from the National Vocabulary Championship.
It included several items such as a daily calendar, a book called “Win with Words” and a backpack.
High school students interested in competing can go to winwithwords.com.
This is for everyone else.
Download:
cordiform: shaped like a heart
The latest results are in for 4th and 8th grade math and English tests in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as NAEP.
And state Education Commissioner Richard Mills is very happy.
Results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress announced today show that since [...]
Superintendent Bernard P. Pierorazio kicked off the year with a present and a pun at an early morning briefing with school administrators today.
He presented school banners to Roosevelt High School principal Jade Sharp, Mark Twain Middle School principal Eileen Rivera, and Fermi School assistant principal Migdaline Delany, district spokeswoman Jeri Fierstein told The Hall Monitor [...]
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