Education

 

Big money to boost grades

Posted on: Friday, September 03, 2010 by BY SAMANTHA BRIX |STAFF WRITER

Local superintendents are awaiting word from New York State on how they can spend the nearly $700 million in federal "Race to the Top" grant...

SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO Brand-new exercise equipment arrived at Mount Sinai Middle School this week, just in time for the first day of school.

Get ready to run, kids!

Posted on: Friday, September 03, 2010 by BY SAMANTHA BRIX |staff writer

A brand-new, fully-equipped cardiovascular exercise room will be waiting for Mount Sinai middle schoolers upon their return to school Tuesday. It comes courtesy of the...

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO Kasey Wehrheim, a third-grade inclusion teacher at Riverhead Charter School, straightens out books Tuesday for a classroom library in the school's modular building, which was badly damaged in a fire. The kids will be returning soon for the first time since February.

Displaced staff, students return to charter school

Posted on: Friday, September 03, 2010 by BY VERA CHINESE |STAFF WRITER

Teacher Jodi Gallagher said she lost nine years' worth of teaching materials when a fire badly damaged her classroom at Riverhead Charter School one evening...

Federal bill sending some $5M to districts

Posted on: Friday, September 03, 2010 by BY SAMANTHA BRIX |staff writer

Local school districts found out their estimated shares of the federal education jobs bill this week.

Longwood, SunLand's largest school district, will receive about $2.6 million,...