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"Christmas Every Day" on stage at Concordia 12/5 to 7
(Cast of 'Christmas Every Day. Photo courtesy of Concordia College) Some 80 local students are featured in the musical "Christmas Every Day," a producation slated for Dec. 5 through 7 at Concordia Conservatory's Schoenfeld Campus Center. Performers and crew attend schools in the Bronx, Bronxville, Eastchester, Harrison, Mount Vernon, Pelham, New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Tuckahoe, Yonkers and Old… → Read More
Tuckahoe football coaches set moral tone low, critics say
Behind the scenes, the Tuckahoe High School football team home to favoritism, vulgarity, abuse allegations. → Read More
Open Door to start free clinic at Ossining High School
Open Door Family Medical Service gets $1.9M grant, plans to open a free clinic at Ossining High School → Read More
Leake & Watts wins nonprofit management honor
(Alan Mucatel, executive director, Leake & Watts, and Board of Trustees chairman G. Crossan Seybolt Jr., receive the Excellence Award of the New York Community Trust. Photo courtesy of Leake & Watts) Leake & Watts, a nonprofit serving troubled youth in Yonkers that had been censured for bad practices in the past, has won one of three Excellence Awards by the New York Community Trust. It was one… → Read More
Dobbs Ferry High School disciplines 11 students for trying to buy fake IDs
Eleven Dobbs Ferry High School students were disciplined for trying to buy false IDs online. → Read More
Local superintentendents say state's data on college success is wildly inaccurate
A new study released by the state Education Department on college success contains bad data, local school administrators say. → Read More
East Ramampo's fiscal monitor evokes Brown v Board of Ed
State fiscal monitor, Regents, cite historic civil rights case in East Ramapo report. → Read More
Maylasian educators check out Stepinac's e-text-only program
(Left to right: Stephen Cupertino, of Stepinac’s math faculty and a member of the school’s Technology Department; Patricia Murphy, Director of the Technology Department; Shaiful Hasnan, Senior Assistant Director MOE; Noor Aziran, Head of Textbook Unit, MOE;Lisa Alfasi, Pearson Education representative; Sofia Akmar; Multimedia Development Corporation; Abdul Ghani, Director of Textbook Division… → Read More
White Plains schools cited in state comptroller's audit
DiNapoli: A check on White Plains schools service contracts showed the district didn't follow its own procedures. → Read More
Mount Pleasant voters reject $55.8M bond issue
Mount Pleasant school district voters defeated a plan to upgrade the Westlake campus by more than 2 to 1; district looks at what to do next. → Read More
NY looks at Spanish/English classes as part of bilingual education initiative
New York's new focus on bilingual education means dual-language classes are getting a second look. → Read More
WPHS senior pushes for water bottle refill stations
White Plains High School senior Olivia Berger is advocating for water bottle refilling stations in her city, and beyond. → Read More
Eastchester HS art teacher featured in exhibits
Just got this in from Eastchester schools: Eastchester High School teacher Sylvia Vigliani, a resident of Riverdale, was part of photography exhibit at the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse highlighting the growing Bronx arts community. Called "The Bronx Artist Documentary Project," the exhibit, which ran this fall, featured the work of 30 photographers who recorded 80 artists as they… → Read More
Keeping kids and teachers separated in the social networking world
Schools are writing policies to keep teachers and kids from mixing on social media. → Read More
Harrison High student Gurgitano dies from stroke
A 16-year-old Harrison High School baseball pitcher dies suddenly at home, leaving classmates, teammates devastated → Read More
Good Counsel parents incorporate to save school
Frustrated by an appeal to their spiritual leaders, parents and alumni of Good Counsel Academy have turned to a secular approach to saving their school in White Plains: They’ve incorporated. → Read More
Monroe College culinary arts students win state championship
(Photo, from left: Yocary Luna; Carmen Albino; Dean Frank Costantino, Rossella Cangialosi, Courtney Boyle, and Jorge Mendoza. Photo courtesy of Monroe College.) Students from Monroe College's culinary arts program were named state champions in the recent American Culinary Federation 2015 New York State Championship, beating out three other teams to take their first championship trophy with five… → Read More
WCC names Belinda Miles, CCC provost, new president
Ohioan Belinda S. Miles takes over leadership of Westchester Community College, leaving Cuyahoga Community College provost job to return to her New York roots. → Read More
Port Chester HS music honor society inducts new members
Just got this in from Port Chester High School, courtesy of Caryn Furst: The Port Chester High School Tri-M Music Honor Society inducted new members at its annual ceremony Nov. 3. Tri-M, an acronym for “Modern Music Masters,” is an international music honor society for high school students sponsored by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) The student inductees are: Tinu Alex,… → Read More
Dobbs Ferry resident named first female president of Queens tech college
Sharon B. DeVivo of Dobbs Ferry will be installed next week as the first female president of Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, a private four-year college specializing in engineering, technology, management and aviation with a campus in Flushing and on-line presence. DeVivo will become the seventh president of the college on Nov. 7, the day after the school celebrates completion of a… → Read More