The third study session for the 2023-24 Scarsdale Schools budget was only 90 minutes long on Monday, March 20, but was packed with information and included an added public comment period in which the standard four-minute time limit was waived.
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On the heels of its sold-out fall musical “Mamma Mia!,” Scarsdale High School Drama Club (SHSDC) will bring the dramatic comedy “She Kills Monsters” to the Scarsdale stage this weekend.
After a successful first year of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee work at Scarsdale Middle School during the 2021-22 school year, mostly centered around celebrating people and observances through art projects, co-chairs Mayra Kirkendall-Rodríguez, Esthela Lecuona and Rachana Singh w…
There was a vibrant and colorful start to the weekend for Scarsdale High School students Friday, March 10, thanks to the Improving India Together Club and the Muslim Youth Club.
When Elise Broach looked out into the sea of more than 180 budding young Scarsdale writers, she saw herself. The well-established children’s and young adult author shared her journey, which started as an elementary school reader and writer, as the keynote speaker kicking off the annual Scars…
With a rise in e-learning and usage of screen-based learning — laptops, tablets, even cellphones — as a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the technologies discovered and created during the last few years, and the reliance on them, have held on despite the full-time return to in…
Scarsdale superintendent of schools Dr. Drew Patrick and his cabinet presented budget draft No. 3 to the board of education Monday, March 6. The proposal included a new round of suggested cuts and left out the high school auditorium renovation, which will become a separate bond item, to get …
Scarsdale Board of Education member Bob Klein said it was “almost too good to be true,” but after a short presentation from, and question-and-answer period with Cenergistic representatives, the entire school board was on board and ready to move forward with a self-funded energy-saving initiative.
International travel has been a staple of February break for Scarsdale students for decades. After a three-year hiatus from travel abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, 2021 and 2022, the final barrier of that era was broken when four groups represented Scarsdale High School throughou…
Scarsdale High School senior Hayley Harrison knows exactly what she wants to do with her life, and she can point directly to the people who have inspired her. That was front and center as Harrison, the lead student ambassador of the Scarsdale Alumni Association, hosted the alumni association…
The first budget study session presentation made to the Scarsdale Board of Education didn’t go as the board expected on Monday, Feb. 13. After a long discussion, the board tasked the administration with presenting different ways to fund the overdue and long-discussed high school auditorium p…
Almost three dozen Westchester County high school students were recognized as finalists and scholars in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search this week.
When a school district brings in a new superintendent there is often curiosity and some level of excitement. In announcing the hiring of Dr. Drew Patrick, who had served as assistant superintendent of human resources and leadership development from 2014 until he was named interim superintend…
The Scarsdale Board of Education released a statement Thursday, Feb. 9, naming current Interim Superintendent Dr. Andrew (Drew) Patrick as superintendent of Scarsdale Schools.
After introducing the Off and Away for the Day concept to Scarsdale High School students during the first week of the school year, administration, faculty and the high school PTA felt it fitting to relaunch the initiative on Monday, Jan. 30, the first day of the second semester.
The Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) is seeking to identify potential candidates to serve on the Scarsdale Board of Education. The SBNC held its first meeting of the 2023 season on Jan. 26 and is now engaged in active outreach to build a robust candidate pool.
Advocacy from students on adding a more diverse set of holidays and from parents to move and cut down on half days at the elementary school level has yielded a proposed 2023-24 school year calendar that is stretched to the max.
The Scarsdale Board of Education issued a statement Wednesday, Feb. 1 to announce that the interview phase of the district superintendent search process had been completed and the school board has unanimously selected a final candidate. The name will be revealed after a selected group of sta…
Little did anyone know when James Kakaire-Poche transferred from North Carolina in September 2020 that he would be the final Student Transfer Education Plan — better known as STEP — student to graduate from Scarsdale High School. Kakaire-Poche graduated in the spring of 2022 and matriculated…
Scarsdale High School senior Cindy DeDianous was shocked and exhilarated to receive a call in early January notifying her that she was one of the top 300 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, which received over 1,900 applicants in the 2023 competition. But what she didn’t know w…
After years of robots and designs going kerplunk and kerplooey, the Scarsdale High School robotics team — the aptly named RoboRaiders — made their dreams a reality in their first competition of the 2022-23 school year.
In “America the Busy,” students are juggling more activities and obligations than ever before, but at what cost?
With about 80% of the district’s budget relating to staffing costs — salaries, benefits and associated costs make up the “lion’s share of our spending,” according to interim superintendent Dr. Drew Patrick — the Scarsdale Schools budget presentations kicked off with the estimated enrollment …
Scarsdale parents focused on requesting fewer half days at the elementary school level, particularly in the final week of school, during public comment at the board of education meeting Monday, Jan. 9.
During its “Thriving Students: The structures and methods that support student well-being, inclusion, empathy and joy” presentation last month, Scarsdale Schools administrators introduced some new and potentially transformative approaches to evaluating students. Not long after some parents w…
The 2023 Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee (SBNC) election will take place Tuesday, Jan. 10, from 7 to 10 a.m. and 2 to 9 p.m. in the Scarsdale Middle School (SMS) auditorium lobby at 134 Mamaroneck Road. Snow date is Wednesday, Jan. 11 or the next day school is in session.
When Shana Frazin was hired as Scarsdale Middle School librarian prior to the 2021-22 school year, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were still being felt. She didn’t even get to see the library when she interviewed, and it was being used as a large classroom space at that time. Once she …
The Scarsdale Forum’s Education Committee released a report earlier this month on new strategies for addressing students’ mental health and well-being in Scarsdale schools. The committee pointed to a “disturbing” rise in mental health issues in American teens and made a number of recommendat…
If you were wondering just how much adding holidays to the Scarsdale Schools calendar would mean to community members, look no further than first-year board of education member Suzie Hahn Pascutti, who got emotional at the end of a lengthy discussion on possible ways to include holidays like…
From ninth grade to 10th grade, from 10th to 11th, from 11th to 12th, from graduation to the next steps in life, the Scarsdale High School counseling department is a key component in the yearly transition of students. In addition to the popular focus on the landscape of college admissions fr…
To theater, or not to theater, that is the question before the Scarsdale Board of Education.
As Scarsdale High School students continue to advocate and petition for additional holiday time off during the school year to reflect changing demographics in ethnicity and religion, interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Drew Patrick was finally able to offer students hope that the district …
If there was a message from the Scarsdale High School counseling department’s “The College Admissions Landscape: Trends and Implications for SHS” presentation it was, as Bob Dylan wrote, “The times they are a-changin’.”
Friday, Nov. 18, was the 19th Annual Human Rights Conference and “Stand up and be the change” was the theme behind the daylong program at Scarsdale Middle School. Instead of attending classes as usual, students took part in programs offered in classrooms throughout the school, and heard from…
The Scarsdale Board of Education held two executive sessions Monday, Nov. 28, once to meet with superintendent of schools search consultants from Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA), once to discuss a pair of disciplinary items related to two employees.
Budget season kicked off for the Scarsdale School District with a public forum on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 17, for groups and community members to start letting the board of education and administration know their goals for the upcoming 2023-24 school year budget talks.
Around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 22, second-year Scarsdale High School art teacher and Manhattan resident John Catania came to the aid of a Muslim woman who was attacked on an Eighth Avenue-bound L train. Both Catania and the female victim ended up punched and slashed with a blade and were…
A producer, an actor, a philanthropist, a firefighter and a psychiatrist/author assembled for a panel at the Scarsdale Public Library on Nov. 19. The string connecting these five people is Scarsdale, and the fact that they were all back in town for the 30th anniversary of the Class of 1992.
After hearing an hourlong presentation on the past, present and potential future for the Scarsdale High School auditorium that came with an estimated $4.7 million renovation price tag to address the numerous decades-old shortcomings, board of education member Bob Klein put his background in …
Monetarily speaking, the three IRS payroll tax reporting errors from 2020 cost the Scarsdale School District $176,549.80 when the $7,628.56 in excess payment due to interest paid to the district by the IRS for the $851,186.56 in penalties that was returned to the district is factored in. Acc…
Scarsdale assistant superintendents Dr. Edgar McIntosh and Eric Rauschenbach have often used the same refrain: “Let’s have a conversation.”
Earlier this year in February, Association of Scarsdale Teacher Aides and Assistants president Joy Rotker, a teacher aide in Scarsdale since 1999, addressed the board during public comment requesting the district consider offering the employees in her union the option to enroll in the distri…
The overall news was positive as Scarsdale Schools released its third grade through high school testing data from 2022 on Tuesday, Oct. 25, and presented it the next night during an education report.
On Sept. 30 through Oct. 2, Scarsdale High School 60th/61st class reunion weekend was held for SHS classes of 1961 and 1962, an in-person, post-pandemic celebration. Launching the event on Friday, Sept. 30 was the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) Galaxy Forum SHS 2022, the …
About 10 people sat at desks Friday, Oct. 7 in the Scarsdale High School’s Little Theater, their eyes scanning the room. “They used to teach Russian in here,” remarked one member of the group, Linda Lane. She and her cohorts had assembled that afternoon for the purposes of learning — but not…
At a special meeting of the Scarsdale School Board of Education’s Audit Committee on Tuesday, Oct. 11, the board heard a presentation from an outside independent auditor examining internal controls for payroll withholdings in the wake of the three clerical errors that led to $1.7 million in …
After apologizing earlier in the day to the Scarsdale Teachers Association, in addition to sending written apologies to teachers and administrators involved, second-year Scarsdale Board of Education member Jessica Resnick-Ault issued a public verbal apology on Oct. 3 to the Scarsdale faculty…
The superintendent of schools search leadership profile presented by Deborah Raizes and Dr. Susan Guiney of Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates at the Oct. 3 Scarsdale School Board of Education meeting was met with high praise.
With 14 students and two teachers from Italy spending a week in Scarsdale from Sept. 15-23, the final COVID-19 barrier facing schools — international travel — has been cleared. As hundreds of students will be permitted to go abroad for the first time in three years, Scarsdale High School is …
After a summer of teacher education through the Scarsdale Teachers Institute, Reveal Math officially debuted in all five Scarsdale elementary schools on the first day of school earlier this month. Reveal Math was chosen in an effort to better educate students and meet federal and state stand…
As part of its commitment to increased transparency and communication, Scarsdale Schools interim superintendent Dr. Drew Patrick has added school district cabinet member reports to each meeting to not only give a glimpse of what’s happening now, but what’s coming up in the future as well.
