Much to be voted on Tuesday in the Kingston school district
Polls will be open on Tuesday, May 15 from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. in all seven of the district’s elementary schools.
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Kingston schools: $16 million in proposed school fixes will be on May budget ballot
The Kingston City School District will ask voters next month for approval to spend up to $16 million on capital projects at M. Clifford Miller Middle School and both John F. Kennedy and Harry L. Edson elementary schools.
Suspensions rescinded for Kingston middle school students who walked out
Kingston City School District officials last week rescinded the out-of-school suspensions of six J. Watson Bailey Middle School students they say disrupted access to a basketball court during lunch on the day students across the country participated in a national walkout to promote awareness about gun violence.
Kingston High names top two of Class of ’18
Kingston High School this week announced Grace Gavis and Patricia Kuster as the valedictorian and salutatorian respectively for its Class of 2018.
Hundreds of Kingston High students walk out to protest gun violence
Hundreds of students at Kingston High School participated in a nationwide walkout this morning in tribute to the 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. who lost their lives to gun violence on campus one month earlier.
Kingston High School students will join March 14 walkout
“The significance of that is that they are realizing they can step up and make a difference and aren’t leaving it to other people,” said the superintendent.
Kingston school administration supports student solidarity but worries about safety
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.
Kingston school board cuts sale price of Cioni Building by 18%, citing ‘environmental issues’
The uptown building, which currently houses school district offices, is being sold to a hotel developer.
Closing date on Kingston’s Cioni Building sale to be set in early ’18
The school district sold its administration building to a hotel developer for $4.25-million. The price was significantly higher than expected and was part of a mini real estate boom in the Uptown section of the city.
Hudson Valley Sudbury School students’ video is Facebook famous
A video created by a pair of students, along with many of their classmates and some staff members at the Hudson Valley Sudbury School, has gone viral. It’s not only raising awareness about the self-directed form of education, but has also tapped into the larger national and global conversation about how kids learn.