Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population This year’s Quality Counts report focused on the growing population of English-Language Learners in the United States.
Released yesterday, the Quality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population, How English-Language Learners Are Putting Schools to the Test is available online with individual state profiles and a slew of national data.
New York fared pretty well, scoring an overall read more.. Writing contest: $2,000 for your thoughts Middle and high school students in the Lower Hudson Valley and across the country can take part in a creative writing contest inspired by the movie Marley & Me in which they can win prizes valued up to $2,000.
The contest, sponsored by Twentieth Century Fox and Weekly Reader Custom Publishing, a unit of Pleasantville-based Reader’s read more.. RCC offers new e-newsletter Anyone interested in keeping up with Rockland Community College’s community events can sign up for its new, free monthly e-newsletter. To get the newsletter, visit www.sunyrockland.edu and click on the “Sign up for FREE newsletter” button on the lower right corner, or click here.
New Teachers Project: Spirits High They’ve survived the first half of the school year. No, not the students. We’re talking about the teachers here. Particularly those new teachers who are just making their way through the ups and downs of it all for the first time.
In the Lower Hudson Valley, four new teachers have opened their classrooms to The Journal read more.. Nanuet concert includes newly commissioned work The Nanuet High School band is adding something new to its spring concert: a work that will receive its official premiere in early March at the New York State Band Director Association’s symposium.
The Director’s Association commissioned a work by composer Timothy Broege for the symposium, and the state honors band will premiere it at for read more.. Cafeteria inspections: Northern Westchester, Putnam County districts added Over the holiday break, The Journal News published the cafeteria inspection reports for all six school districts in Putnam County and seven districts in northern Westchester.
As my colleague Barbara Nackman wrote in a story published Saturday (Jan. 3), six school districts in Putnam County netted 64 food safety and health violations in 2006, 2007 and read more.. BOCES Communications Academy graduates earn scholarships YORKTOWN HEIGHTS – Three 2008 graduates of the Communications Academy at BOCES Tech Center received coveted memorial scholarships named for former students and a former teacher at the Putnam/Northern Westchester Board of Educational Services program.
They were recognized at a gathering that included faculty, administrators, and both current and former students.
“This is my favorite day to read more.. State audits initiated in three local schools New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced his office recently initiated audits of the Greenburgh Eleven, Rye Neck and Mount Pleasant school districts, among others.
DiNapoli’s office will audit all of New York’s 834 school districts, BOCES and charter schools by 2010 in an effort to improve accountability. The State Comptroller’s office has completed read more.. RCC spring 2009 orientation Spring 2009 orientation at Rockland Community College will be held Tuesday, Jan. 20 from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m.
Here’s the event breakdown:
5:15. p.m. – Students check in, Cultural Arts Center Atrium at the main campus (145 College Road in Ramapo)
5:30 p.m. – Welcome Address, Cultural Arts Theater. Campus tour follows
6:00 p.m. – Information Fair, Student Union, read more.. School audits on target for 2010 completion A press release from Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office has noted that the state Comptroller’s Office finished 216 school and BOCES audits in 2008, putting it on time to finish auditing every public school district and BOCES in New York by March 31, 2010.
The state vowed to audit each of the public school entities between 2005 read more..
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