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Racial Epithet Investigated at John Jay Middle School
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Katonah-Lewisboro Schools: Budget Approved, Incumbents Re-elected
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Meet the Katonah-Lewisboro School Board Candidates
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U.S. News Rankings — Report Card out for John Jay
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KLSD School Board Hires Two Assistant Principals, Approves BOCES Budget
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Bournas-Ney Appointed Meadow Pond Assistant Principal
By TOM BARTLEY
May 18, 2022CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – For the third time in as many months, a message of hate has been put on disturbing display at John Jay Middle School in Cross River.
A racial epithet, scratched earlier this month in a boys lavatory, joins swastikas found in separate incidents at the school in February and March.
As in the previous episodes, May 5’s discovery prompted immediate calls to the ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y - Katonah-Lewisboro School District voters returned three incumbents to the school board Tuesday and approved more than $115 million in spending in the new academic year.
Turning back a rare three-way challenge, the board’s vice president, Julia Hadlock (1,343 votes), and trustees Elizabeth Gereghty (1,282) and Rory Burke (1,238) won new three-year terms in ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. - For the first time in recent memory, three incumbent school board members will face challenges when Katonah-Lewisboro School District residents go to the polls next week.
Voters will be asked on the May 17 ballot to choose from among six candidates to fill the three board seats, pass judgment on next year’s $115.7 million school district budget, and approve spending ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – John Jay High School ranks among the best in the nation, according to the latest US News rankings.
Out of nearly 18,000 public high schools in the country, John Jay came in at 479. In New York State, the school ranked 55th.
US News grades the schools in six categories:
• How many students took at least one AP exam
• How many students passed at least ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – The Katonah-Lewisboro school board named two new assistant principals and approved a BOCES budget in an abbreviated April 19 meeting.
It also touched off a Facebook flap by limiting the rare Tuesday meeting to brief but essential business after School Superintendent Andrew Selesnick called in sick. Selesnick, who attends all of the board’s meetings, usually held ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – David Bournas-Ney, a first-grade teacher at George M. Davis Elementary School in New Rochelle, was appointed assistant principal of Meadow Pond Elementary School at Katonah-Lewisboro School District’s Board of Education meeting on Thursday, April 7.
Previously, Bournas-Ney worked in two Brooklyn elementary schools, the Excellence Boys Charter School and the ...
KATONAH, N.Y. – Robotics students from the Harvey Middle School will be traveling to Dallas, Texas, next month to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship tournament.
Leading the pack of Harvey’s RoboCavs headed to Worlds will be seventh graders Lee Birch, Daniel Kiamie, and Sullivan Wieting, whose Team 6277Z scored a second-place finish at the VEX IQ New York South Region ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. – Erika Glick, a vocal critic of the Katonah-Lewisboro School District’s literacy program, has declared her candidacy for one of three school board seats up for grabs next month.
A Katonah mother of two, she joins two other outspoken critics of district policy in challenging three board incumbents in the May 17 contest.
Her fellow challengers, Marc Abrams of ...