Reading from a prepared statement at last night’s meeting to discuss the $3.36 million deficit, Board of Education member Robert Hallowell said “school district administration and the Board of Education failed in our duty to monitor and anticipate fiscal conditions - there is no way around that.”
Hallowell appeared to become emotional several times as he [...]

Monday night, the Board of Education approved the recommended appointments and salaries for principals and assistant principals for the 2009-10 school year. Here they are:
Approval of the Superintendent’s Elementary Assistant Principal Assignments for the 2009-10 school year as follows:
a.       Tracey Cassady, Charlotte Avenue School and Dr. Crisp School
b.       Karen Crebase, New Searles School
c.        Patricia Flynn, [...]

Responding to today’s Learning Curve column about year-round education, a helpful reader pointed out that it was in the 1970s when Alvirne High School in Hudson experimented with this very type of format.
Teresa Stewart, class of 1975, wrote: “Alvirne High School had a year round program in the 70’s.  We went year round due to over crowding, the [...]