The superintendent said he hopes to find a “happy medium” that would allow students to express themselves about gun violence and school safety without participating in a walkout, which he says wouldn’t be a good idea because of the number of students and controversial nature of the topic.
The recent mass shooting at a High School in Florida that killed 17 people — most of them children — necessitated Onteora District School officials to review school safety at their February 20 Board of Education meeting at the Middle/High School.
Ottaway is a journalist, newspaper executive, philanthropist and longtime friend of the college. Adams is a 1967 alumna of the theater arts program and an Emmy Award-winning journalist, producer, historian, speaker, musician and bestselling author of eleven books, including the forthcoming collection of essays, Sediddy: Attitude, Gratitude and Seeing Red.
Feb. 23-25: More than 100 students will take to the New Paltz Middle School auditorium’s stage — and backstage, and even the auditorium’s floor — to present a gigantic and tuneful extravaganza.
Thomas M. Bongiovi was hired last October as interim superintendent. His appointment through 2021 was approved unanimously.
The Saugerties pre-kindergarten program at Mt. Marion and Cahill elementary schools has been under way for a little over a month, and school officials think it’s been a great addition.
The Saugerties Junior and Senior High Drama Club will present CSI: Wonderland on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16-17 at Saugerties High School.
Agreements made with developers to encourage new business can mean shortfalls for local school districts.
A planned session on racial equity scheduled for the January 24 meeting of the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education didn’t go entirely as organizers may have intended, but community members organized around this issue appear to have gotten closer to achieving one of their goals, the establishment of a board committee that would oversee such issues in the district.
Several students expressed discomfort, one likening it to being Jewish and living in “Hitler Hall.” Members of the community tended to express support for having a dialogue, but more likely to defend the wider legacy of the town’s founding families.