Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter announced Wednesday his tentative 2016 budget calls for a 5.06 percent tax levy increase.
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Students leaving Roanoke Avenue Elementary School to board the buses Monday afternoon. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
“They couldn’t have made a worse decision than what we have in our hands right now.”
For someone who has been a vocal critic of New York State’s public education system’s high-stakes testing model, which has been enacted for the past few years, Greenport and Southold Superintendent David Gamberg’s comments Tuesday about next year’s state education budget came as especially critical.
While the budget adopted April 1 increases education funding by over 6 percent statewide, it has been met with heavy pushback from educators near and far as Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues attempting to overhaul education accountability throughout the state. (more…)
Riverhead school district residents will be asked to approve three propositions — relocating the bus garage, bonding for a turf field and establishing a new repair reserve account — at the May 19 budget vote.
Shoreham-Wading River School District Superintendent Steven Cohen. (Credit: Jen Nuzzo, file)
With reports trickling out of Albany that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reached a tentative deal with lawmakers over the state budget and education reforms, local educators are calling for an independent commission to help develop policy moving forward.
According to published reports, Mr. Cuomo has backed off his demand to tie 50 percent of teacher evaluations to state test scores — up from 20 percent — and instead will task the state education department with improving the way teachers are evaluated.
As part of the deal, teacher tenure would increase from three to four years and schools will see big increases in state aid. (more…)
ESL director Liz Scaduto and assistant superintendent David Wicks discussing new state regulations for students who need instruction in English at Tuesday’s school board meeting. (Credit: Tim Gannon)
Riverhead School District officials are bracing for a large influx of students requiring English instruction next fall, along with a new set of state regulations.
There were no speakers at the Riverhead Town Board’s public hearing on its 2015 preliminary budget at its meeting Wednesday. (more…)
The Riverhead Town Board held a special meeting Thursday to formally accept Supervisor Sean Walter’s 2015 tentative budget and to schedule a public hearing on it. The board then went into its weekly work session. (more…)
Verna Campbell, a longtime Town Hall receptionist, was one of 11 town employees to accept a retirement incentive. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file)
Eleven Riverhead Town employees have accepted an early retirement incentive offered by the Town Board in an attempt to cut costs in the 2015 budget. (more…)