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January 15, 2010
by Susie Pender
At their regular meeting on Tuesday night, the Chappaqua Central School District School Board continued their public dialogue with the administration about next year’s budget.
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January 15, 2010
by Susie Pender
At their regular meeting on Tuesday night, the Chappaqua Central School District School Board continued their public dialogue with the administration about next year’s budget.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Editor’s note: This week at Greeley is Alcohol Awareness Week. The Greeley Student Government and Students Against Drunk Driving and Drugs (SADDD) have organized a number of events to educate students about the dangers of alcohol and drug use. One of the activities is a school-wide assembly on Wednesday with speaker Michael Sarich, who will discuss how alcohol and drug abuse derailed his life and undermined his ambitions. Greeley parents are invited to a preview of his talk on Tuesday, January 12 at 7:15 p.m. in Room K110. A description of the week’s events in provided below in the letter from Student Council President Zach Ehrlich and SADDD Executive Jamie Warner.
Read MoreTuesday, September 29, 2009
by Christine Yeres
Last Friday, the deadline for written comment on the draft environmental impact statement for Chappaqua Crossing, the Chappaqua Central School District’s board of education weighed in with a report on the impacts to the school district of the proposed 278-unit condominium development. The Board of Education enlisted the help of Western Suffolk BOCES, or Board of Cooperative Educational Services, to examine the fiscal impact to the school district of added student population. The resulting report lists costs associated with additional students in five scenarios ranging from five to 214 added students.
Read MoreMay 29, 2009
by Susie Pender
The board of education meeting on Tuesday, May 26, was cause for celebration. Twenty-one teachers were granted tenure in the Chappaqua Central School District, along with seven teaching assistants, two guidance counselors and one administrator. The list of the newly tenured appears below.
Next week’s board of education meeting, at 8:15 on Tuesday, June 2, in the Academic Commons of the high school promises to be more somber. The board will honor and bid a fond farewell to retiring teachers and administrators, as well as announce the lay-offs necessitated by the 2009-2010 budget. The list of retiring personnel appears below.
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Seniors Maile Hamilton (Antigone) and Matt Haas (Creon)
March 5, 2010
by Lori Sachare
The Horace Greeley High School Theater Company presents Jean Anouilh’s Antigone on Friday, March 5 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, March 6 at 8 p.m. in the HGHS auditorium, 70 Roaring Brook Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Tickets are $10, and can be pre-ordered by emailing Mr. Christopher Schraufnagel at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Tickets will also be available at the door, and will go on sale one hour before the show begins. For any additional information, please call the Theatre Office at 861-9425.
Read MoreMarch 5, 2010
by Elinor and Peter Griffith
We’re all familiar with the concept of it taking a village to raise a child. We were delighted to learn recently that the Scarsdale teachers union has voted to cut their raises, voluntarily, by 1% until 2012 – or by $1.9 million. Could this be relevant for Chappaqua?
March 5, 2010
by Katri Backman-Koster
The weather outside was frightful when the New York State Boys Swimming and Diving Championships were held in Buffalo, New York, at the end of last week on February 26 and 27.
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February 26, 2010
by Susie Pender
At Tuesday night’s School Board work session, Superintendent David Fleishman introduced his administration’s proposed 2010-11 school budget of $109,756,488, a 2.24% increase of $2,409,354 over the 2009-10 budget.
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February 19, 2010
by Susie Pender
At the Tuesday, February 23, Board of Education meeting in the Academic Commons at Horace Greeley High School, Superintendent David Fleischman will reveal the administration’s proposed budget for the 2010-11 school year. At that meeting, the Board of Education will begin its review of the administration’s proposal.
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February 12, 2010
by Susie Pender
The Hope for Haiti concert at the Greeley auditorium last Friday was a real success, with an equal number of adults and students turning out to support the efforts of the students, teachers and administrators of “Greeley Helps Haiti.”
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2010
by Christine Yeres
On Friday, the Chappaqua Central School District sent out a blast containing two letters: one from Superintendent David Fleishman announcing that he will leave his position with the district at the end of this school year, “to pursue opportunities in the Boston area,” where his family resides; the other from the Board of Education members informing residents that they will look for an interim superintendent for the 2010-2011 school year and are already developing a search process for a permanent replacement for Fleishman.
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February 5, 2010
by Christine Yeres
At last Tuesday’s board of education meeting, the middle school principals, Martin Fitzgerald of Bell and Martha Zornow of Seven Bridges and their respective science department chairs described to the board members the steps they have taken this year to further shift the culture of their schools away from teacher-delivered content toward student-initiated inquiry.
Read MoreFebruary 5, 2010
by Alyson Gardner Kiesel
“How was school today?” I asked my 8-year-old.
“Fine,” he replied.
“What did you do all day?”
“Nothing really,” he said with a shrug of his shoulders.
Sound familiar? This conversation, if one can call it that, gets replayed again and again in my three-child household, ages 11, 8 and 4.
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Updated January 25, 2010
January 1, 2010
Dr. Mary Ehrenworth, Deputy Director of the Columbia Teachers College “Reading and Writing Project” and a consultant for Chappaqua schools, makes the case for the critical role reading plays in children’s academic lives—especially books they don’t have to read.
Read MoreDecember 25, 2009
Editor’s note: Deb Crosby, Greeley art teacher and president for the last eight years of the Chappaqua Congress of Teachers, distributed the following letter on December 15 to her colleagues in the Chappaqua Central School District announcing her retirement from teaching and from the leadership position of the Chappaqua teachers’ union.
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December 18, 2009
by Susie Pender
The Greeley Chorus, the Madrigal Choir and the Women’s Ensemble will all be performing tonight in the Horace Greeley Auditorium in the annual Greeley Winter Concert starting at 7:30 p.m.
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December 18, 2009
by Susie Pender
Round one of the Greeley-sponsored Coaches v. Cancer basketball tournament was played Thursday afternoon in the Horace Greeley High School main gym. In the first game, Hackley’s varsity girls beat Yorktown 47 to 38. In the second game, the Greeley girls beat Pelham, 53-38.
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UPDATED: December 15, 2009
by Rachel Rader
Next week, the Chappaqua School Foundation will conduct a community-wide telephone survey in order to better inform our grant-making to the schools. You will receive a call not from CSF, but from an independent survey company. Please do not hang up. The field service that is making the phone calls is called “I Moderate.” We are calling every household in the district that has kids in the schools.
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February 19, 2010
by Christine Yeres
Less than one week after announcing that he would leave the Chappaqua Central School District in June, as of this past Tuesday, February 16, Superintendent David Fleishman finds himself one of three finalists for the superintendent spot in Newton, Massachusetts, the town where he was born. Newton is about six miles west of Brookline, where Fleishman’s family resides.
Read MoreJanuary 29, 2010
by Richard Laster
Compliments to the School Board and the Administration for their early focus in developing a Budget forecast for the school year 2010-2011; and, also for taking a peek at the following year, which would be 2011-2012.
Read MoreMeeting begins at 8:15 in the Academic Commons at Greeley
UPDATE: December 15, 2009
by Christine Yeres
Over the weekend, NewCastleNOW.org spoke with Board of Education President Jeffrey Mester about tonight’s budget presentation and the first of the board’s 2010-2011 budget discussions. Mester assigned approximate times for the main agenda items, stating that immediately following a brief presentation at 8:15 p.m. by Seven Bridges’ “Kids against Pollution” club members, the board would reveal the results of the two focus groups conducted last week. Two groups of residents were queried on how the board can engage residents in helping to craft a budget for a year in which state monies will likely be less and local school expenses greater.
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Gramando in his office at the pole barn
July 3, 2009
by Christine Yeres
This week, the head of New Castle Recreation and Parks Department, Bob Snyder, met with Joe Gramando, director of facilities and operations for the school district, to talk about prized field space belonging to the town and to the school district, all of which is heavily used by residents.
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March 5, 2010 UPDATED with photos
by Margaret Skriloff
The Chappaqua Schools Green Fair, a collaborative effort of students and faculty from the Chappaqua School District and members of the Chappaqua PTA, will be held on Saturday, March 6, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Seven Bridges Middle School. The cost for the fair is $5 per student or $10 per family, if parents and children come together. The Green Fair will be a fun and educational event to raise awareness about pressing environmental issues and to educate the community about sustainable living.
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March 5, 2010
by Z
This is a national initiative aimed at teens, librarians, educators, parents, and other concerned adults to encourage teens to take advantage of libraries’ non-print resources.
Also this month:
• “Yikes! The History of Movie Stunts”
• College Prep and Search Programs
• Mother-Daughter Book Discussions
March 5, 2010
The Chappaqua Library and the Chappaqua PTA Special Education Committee have collaborated to bring local author Esta Rapoport to speak at the Seven Bridges Auditorium next Wednesday, March 10, about her field work and research on children with ADHD. In her book, ADHD and Social Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers and Parents, Rapoport offers both teachers and parents practical advice for dealing with the complexities of these kids’ problems. The evening begins with a 7:00 p.m. reception, Rapoport’s talk at 7:30 p.m. with time for question-and-answer following.
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February 26, 2010
by Michael J. Lardiere
The board of the Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund invites members of the community to join them as they honor beloved Greeley teacher and coach Bob Oddo with the first Ed Habermann award. This presentation will take place during the Fund’s annual event, held this year at Crabtree’s Kittle House on Thursday, March 4 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
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February is Black History Month
February 12, 2010
by Christine Yeres
Teen librarian and cineaste Zahra Baird has put together a list of great books for Black History Month, along with brief descriptions of each. She has also included details of the Chappaqua Library’s “College Test Prep Program”—take a test stress-free, have it analyzed—plus, events for teens over the February Staycation, some dreamed up by the library, others by the New Castle rec department. See “Read more…”
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February 5, 2010
by Susie Pender
This Monday, Horace Greeley High School Principal Andrew Selesnick sent an email to Greeley students and parents outlining the new procedures put in place for this weekend’s Valentine’s Day dance. “The Student Council and the Administrators met together to decide on a set of parameters that we believe should allow us to hold the Valentine’s Day dance scheduled for February 6th, at 8:00 p.m. in our gym, in a manner that is safe and enjoyable for all students,” he explained in the letter.
Read MoreFebruary 8, 2010
by Vicky Tipp and Lea Barth
This year, the terms of two members of the elected five-member Board of Education will expire in June. If you are considering, or just curious, about what’s involved in running for the Chappaqua Board of Education, please come to an informational meeting on Tuesday, February 23 at the Horace Greeley Faculty Lounge (off the cafeteria) at 7:00 p.m. You will find out about how to become a Board of Education candidate and current Board of Education members will explain the responsibilities and requirements of the position. This meeting is hosted by the Citizens’ Non-Partisan Candidate Committee.
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February 5, 2010
by Donna Abemayor
Put on your leather jacket and blue suede shoes and shake on over to Seven Bridges Middle School to grab some tickets for the Theatre Company’s February production of “All Shook Up.”
Read MoreJanuary 29, 2010
by Lisa Levinson
For the parents gathered in room K110 at Greeley on Tuesday, January 12 for a parent presentation co-hosted by Greeley’s Students Against Drunk Driving and Drugs (SADDD) and its student government, the fact that one isn’t seventeen forever is a given. But for many teens the challenges of the moment seem larger than life.
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See your teachers show their moves on the court
January 29, 2010
Spend Sunday afternoon with the Harlem Wizards, 1:30 p.m. at Horace Greeley High School. Only two more days to buy tickets for this annual event.
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January 22, 2010
by Cheryl Jacobs Ehrlich
Last year’s 29th Annual Young Writers Contest sponsored by the Friends of the Chappaqua Library generated nearly 300 entries in the high school and middle school categories of Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction.
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January 22, 2010
by Cheryl Jacobs Ehrlich
Get out your ballpoints, your quills and your word-processors. The Friends of the Chappaqua Library is again sponsoring the Annual Young Writers Contest in 2010. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the contest.
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January 8, 2010
by Susie Pender
At the Chappaqua Central School Board meeting on Tuesday, December 15, Superintendent David Fleishman and Assistant Superintendent for Business John Chow presented preliminary budget numbers for the school year 2010-11 totaling $112,902,819. In introducing this budget presentation, Board President Jeffrey Mester emphasized, “This is not a proposed budget. It is just the cost of rolling over this year’s program. This is the start of a process.”
Read MoreJanuary 8, 2010
by Susie Pender
At the Chappaqua Central School District Board Meeting on Tuesday, December 15, Board President Jeffery Mester presented a Summary of Responses obtained from the focus group discussions on the budgetary process held on December 2 and 3. To view the president’s power point presentation, clicking HERE.
Read MoreJanuary 8, 2010
by Susie Pender
The Greeley Talent Show, sponsored by the senior class government, will be held tonight in the high school auditorium at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $5.00 per student and are available for sale at the school today and at the door tonight.
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