Riverhead’s Pulaski Street School is slated to receive a new cafeteria and kitchen. (file photo)
Construction work on $78 million in capital improvements for the Riverhead School District is expected to meet its original completion deadline of next fall, despite delays at the state level that are holding the projects up. (more…)
Parents will soon be able to prepay cards for their kids’ school meals online — and keep tabs on what they’re eating — now that the school board has unanimously approved a new program called Harris School Systems EZSchoolPay. (more…)
Riverhead School District officials have confirmed 217 refusals out of 2,218 students in grades 3 through 8, or 9.8 percent of students, opted out of last week’s state assessments. (Credit: News-Review, file)
The Riverhead School District saw a bump in students declining to participate in last week’s English Language Arts assessments, which were administered last Wednesday through Friday.
“Many came in the last two days,” said Riverhead Superintendent Nancy Carney.
Jesse Goodale (the Lion), Taylor Burgess (Dorothy), Jon Troiano (the Scarecrow) and Alex Bowe (the Tinman) perform in the Blue Masques production of ‘The Wiz’ at Riverhead High School. (Credit: Riverhead Schools)
The Riverhead High School Blue Masques will present the musical “The Wiz” this weekend in the Charles Cardona Auditorium. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. (more…)
The Riverhead School District is expected to receive nearly $22.22 million in state aid next fiscal year, which represents an 11.42 percent hike for 2014-15, according to a press release issued Sunday by South Fork Assemblyman Fred Thiele’s office.
Riverhead superintendent Nancy Carney, left, and Shoreham-Wading River Superintendent Steven Cohen.
Amid increasingly intense scrutiny of standardized testing as a means of improving teacher and student performance, the opt-out movement — which encourages refusal to take the tests used to measure New York’s educators — appears to be gaining some traction locally. This year, in the Riverhead and Shoreham-Wading River districts, and at the Riverhead Charter School, more parents than ever before are refusing to let their children sit for the upcoming state assessments. (more…)
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The Riverhead school board voted to upgrade various parts of the school’s infrastructure Tuesday night, approving the use of $456,000 from the district’s capital reserve fund. In addition, they decided to offer the voting public a $3.98 million bond proposition that will be on the May ballot for bus purchases. (more…)
Last year, the state Legislature approved an amendment to expand the veterans’ tax exemption program to school districts, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law in December.. (Credit: Jen Gustavson)
“When I came home from Vietnam, I couldn’t even get a cab when I was in my uniform. This is a chance, I believe, for the school board to really do the right thing for veterans.”
