Saugerties seeks grant for full-day pre-K
The Saugerties school system is hoping to begin a full-day pre-kindergarten pilot program in January for nearly 50 kids.
Education
Kingston schools’ free lunch for all plan paying off
‘I’ve got 22 years of experience [in education] that tells me, hungry kids in the classroom are not learning.’
Onteora seeks ban on Confederate flag apparel
Several teachers, staff and parents of the district turned out to speak at a recent school board meeting. All requested that the board create a policy that would prohibit wearing or displaying the Confederate image that many see as racist.
SUNY New Paltz program brings international students and community members together for cultural exchange
In the trial run earlier this year, local residents, called “community ambassadors,” took their students on hikes, visited museums, attended performances, visited local sites like Walkway Over the Hudson and shared meals in restaurants and their homes.
Lenape Elementary in New Paltz welcomes new principal
He brings nearly 20 years of experience to New Paltz, most recently as principal at Kent Primary School in Carmel, a K-4 building.
New Paltz High School has a new assistant principal
If you’re looking for New Paltz High School’s new assistant principal, don’t expect to find her behind a desk all day. “I’m a very mobile person,” says Tara Ryba. “I will be everywhere and anywhere.”
Summer program provides immersive experience for Saugerties students learning English
For the second straight summer, Cahill Elementary School morphed into the English as a New Language Academy, a five-week immersive program for elementary-school students for whom learning English is part of their educational experience. Fifteen students participated in the ENL Academy this summer, up two from last year.
Onteora set for first day of school
The incoming student population is approximately 1338. School begins Sept. 6.
New Paltz’s founding families were slaveholders; should their names be stricken from college buildings?
In a response to a petition calling for a change to the name of the campus dining hall to honor a long-time employee, SUNY New Paltz president Donald P. Christian said he’d ask the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Council to look at the pros and cons or retaining or replacing the names of campus buildings named for the town’s earliest Huguenot settlers, who were slaveholders.
Moving-In Day at SUNY New Paltz welcomes 2,000+ new students
They’re baaaaack. More of them than ever, almost: nearly 1,150 first-year students and more than 900 transfer students were welcomed to the SUNY New Paltz campus on Moving-In Day last Thursday. According to university officials, that makes this one of the largest incoming undergraduate classes in the college’s history.