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President Joe Biden Writes To Westchester Elementary School Class President Joe Biden Writes To Westchester Elementary School Class
President Joe Biden Writes To Westchester Elementary School Class An elementary school class in Westchester got a special surprise from the White House after reaching out to the new administration earlier this year. In New Rochelle, the fourth-grade students in Pia Persampieri’s bilingual class at the Trinity Elementary School wrote letters to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this year to discuss topics that concerned them. The project was part of an opinion unit in literacy, where students were assigned to write an opinion piece based on their research into hotbed topics such as social media, climate change, and violence in sc…

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by Zak Failla
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Peekskill Appoints New School Superintendent Peekskill Appoints New School Superintendent
Peekskill Appoints New School Superintendent After an extensive search, the Peekskill Board of Education announced that Dr. David Mauricio has been selected to serve as the district’s next Superintendent of Schools.  Mauricio, who is currently serving as the chief of Strategic Alignment and Innovation at Buffalo Schools, was officially appointed on Tuesday, April 10. He will replace Peekskill’s Interim Superintendent, Dr. Mary Keenan Foster and begin his three year contract effective July 1. Foster will return to her previous position as Peekskill’s assistant superintendent for Elementary Education. “I am very excited to join the Pee…

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by Jon Craig