The Katonah Lewisboro School District this week announced the anticipated appointment of Neill Alleva as assistant superintendent for human re…
The state and county have now given the green light to high-risk winter sports, with final decisions left to each school district. After considerable discussion at the Thursday, Feb. 4 Board of Education meeting, the board voted to authorize participation in hockey, basketball and wrestling.
The Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education meeting Jan. 28 was mainly devoted to updates on the work of two committees, the Equity and Racial Justice Committee, and All In. Superintendent Andrew Selesnick said they are “two groups that are both doing very, very important work in our district —…
The Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education, at its Jan. 14 meeting, focused on social and emotional learning and wellness, with particular attention paid to challenges to mental health during the pandemic. Prior to that, however, the challenges of scheduling with the hybrid model were again at…
For the first time, the John Jay Theatre Workshop’s winter drama, “The Laramie Project,” by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project, will be presented virtually through Zoom on Jan. 21, 22 and 23.
The public forum at the Nov. 19 Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education meeting, and again at the Dec. 3 meeting, was dominated by criticism of the district’s reading curriculum. Unusually, board discussion at the first meeting was then dominated by the administration’s response. That was not t…
The public forum at the Nov. 19 Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education meeting was dominated by criticism of the district’s reading curriculum. Unusually, board discussion was then dominated by the administration’s response.
After making parents of second graders very happy with the announcement that those students would be attending school in person four days a week, the district faced a backlash from parents of kindergarteners over a decision that was made in conjunction with that change. That decision would m…
A positive COVID-19 test resulted in the closure of John Jay High School for one day this week and led to 150 individuals being quarantined. A second positive test for a member of the JJHS community later in the week did not have any such effects.
The Sept. 24 meeting of the Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education was dominated by discussion of a plan to do away with Junior Varsity sports for the fall semester. That plan had first been presented to the board Sept. 10.
Over three days last week, from Tuesday through Thursday, Sept. 1-3, the Katonah-Lewisboro School District was on track to distribute approximately 3,500 personal devices as part of the district’s reopening plan. By putting these devices in students’ hands, district officials said they hope …
The Katonah-Lewisboro School District recently held three online community meetings to answer questions regarding plans for school reopening. The sessions were a requirement set forth by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in giving permission for schools to reopen.
When students finally return to John Jay High School’s campus next month, something will be noticeably missing from the walls sporting the purple-and-white school colors: Native American headdresses, arrowheads and any other reference to the school’s controversial, longtime Indians mascot.
With Gov. Andrew Cuomo having given his blessing on July 31 for school districts to move ahead with reopening this fall, Katonah-Lewisboro administrators are in the thick of figuring out the best options for doing so.
Ines Nix, a rising junior at John Jay High School, could have chosen to stay on the sidelines on the issue of gun violence, particularly in schools, and its disproportionate impact on Black communities.
At the Katonah-Lewisboro School District Board of Education reorganizational meeting July 9, both Marjorie Schiff and Julia Hadlock were unanimously reelected to their positions as president and vice president of the board, respectively, maintaining the leadership status quo.
The John Jay mascot selection process has been put on hold.
The parking lot of Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown Heights was filled on Tuesday with families packed into their cars with the air conditioning and radios cranked all the way up.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, a group named John Jay United For Racial Justice formed on Facebook and acquired 652 members in a little over a week. John Jay alumnus, Jeremy Zitomer, who graduated from the school in 2011, said he formed the group after an initial post on his own …
In a unique school election, voters in the Katonah-Lewisboro School District, voting in record numbers entirely by mail, overwhelmingly approved the proposed 2020-21 budget.
Three candidates are vying for two seats on the Katonah-Lewisboro School District Board of Education. They are Samantha Holcman and Catharine Oestreicher, both running for the first time, and William Rifkin, an incumbent.
Two trustee terms on the Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education are expiring this year, those of Scott Posner and Dr. William Rifkin. Without any fanfare, a three-way race has emerged for the two seats, between an incumbent and two newcomers.
Residents of the Katonah-Lewisboro School District will shortly receive ballots in the mail that will allow them to vote on the proposed 2020-21 budget.
The Katonah-Lewisboro School District announced May 1 that Michael Weschler has been appointed assistant principal of Increase Miller Elementary School.
Superintendent Andrew Selesnick announced changes to his proposed 2020-21 budget at a virtual Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, although there is still no date when the board anticipates it might adopt the budget.
On Wednesday, responding to heightened concerns over group gatherings, Superintendent Andrew Selesnick announced the closing of the facilities at John Jay middle and high school campuses. Entrances to the campus are also closed.
The Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education devoted most of its April 2 meeting, conducted via Zoom, to the topic of how to teach through distance learning. It featured a presentation by Mary Ford, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.
At the March 12 Board of Education meeting, superintendent Andrew Selesnick revealed several expense items would result in the proposed 2020-21 budget rising $500,000 more than originally stated. These included estimates for the renovation of the John Jay High School auditorium, the JJHS gym…
All schools in the Katonah-Lewisboro District began a new era in education on Wednesday, though not one they were eager to enter.
John Jay High School turned into a conference center on Feb. 18, but instead of teens milling in and out of the classrooms, Katonah-Lewisboro’s teachers and administrators filled them for a day of professional learning. In sessions led by in-house experts as well as a few outside thought lea…
Research on climate change by Ashley Stagnari, a senior at John Jay High School, won first place in the earth and environmental science category of the Westchester-Rockland Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, held Feb. 8 at the John Jay campus. She will present her research at the Upsta…
John Jay High School senior, Cat Curry, is constantly on the go, whether teaching at an after-school program at Increase Miller Elementary School, running the Bedford Audubon’s Teen Council, which she founded, or serving as a lab assistant for her AP environmental science teacher. Wherever s…
The proposed 2020-21 Katonah-Lewisboro School District budget, introduced by Superintendent Andrew Selesnick last week, will represent a projected 0.73% increase over the current year, the smallest in four years. The majority of the proposed increase would be funded by revenues other than pr…
