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Westchester High School To Reopen After Devastating Damage From Hurricane Ida
One of Westchester’s largest high schools is set to reopen to students after being forced to close due to damage caused by flooding during Hurricane Ida. On Friday, Oct. 29, the New Rochelle High School welcomed back select students, faculty and staff, with a complete reopening scheduled for Monday, Nov. 1 after weeks of cleanup and restoration efforts. When the hurricane struck in early September, the high school was among the hardest-hit in Westchester, forcing district officials to transition to remote-learning shortly after the academic year began. Earlier story - Sewage Contamination…
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Police Investigate Early Morning School Break-In In Westchester
Police are investigating an early-morning break-in at a middle school in Westchester. School officials in New Rochelle issued a notice to the community advising that the police department is investigating a break-in that happened between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 28 at Isaac E. Young Middle School. No one was in the school at the time, and district officials said that “no students, faculty or staff were ever in harm’s way.” During the break-in, which happened through a window, an alarm was set off, prompting a police response. According to the district, “the building was sea…
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Ida: Two Schools In Westchester Forced To Delay Openings
A pair of schools in one of Westchester’s largest districts were forced to delay their reopening plans due to the damage caused by Tropical Depression Ida. In New Rochelle, both the high school and Isaac E. Young Middle Middle School sustained substantial damage, forcing contractors to make emergency repairs and delaying the reopening of the building to students and staff. Officials said that “most notably, at New Rochelle High School, the situation is serious. Unfortunately, the building received substantial damage, and will take significant time to remediate.” District officials sai…
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Covid-
19: Westchester School District In 'Yellow Zone' Completes Testing To Stay Open
A Westchester school district located inside one of the state’s precautionary COVID-19 micro-cluster “yellow zones” has completed its mandatory testing to remain open for in-person learning. Last month, parts of New Rochelle were designated as a “yellow zone” COVID-19 hotspot, which required four of the district’s schools to comply with COVID-19 testing for 20 percent of the in-person population to remain open. Earlier story - COVID-19: New Rochelle Designated As 'Yellow Zone' Due To Spike In Cases Schools located within a yellow or orange zone are required to randomly select 20 perce…
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Covid-
19: Westchester School To Stay Remote All Week, 48 Quarantined
Four dozen students and staffers in a Westchester school will enter a two-week quarantine after potentially being exposed to COVID-19 last week. Interim New Rochelle Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero alerted the community on Saturday, Oct. 31 that a staff member at Albert Leonard Middle School tested positive for the virus after last being in the building on Tuesday, Oct. 27. On Monday, Nov. 2, Marrero announced that the school has identified 35 students from "Cohort A" and 13 staff members as possibly having been exposed to the individual who tested positive for the virus. Earlier stor…
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Covid-
19: New Staff Member At Westchester School Tests Positive, Five Classes Exposed
A Westchester middle school was forced to transition to remove learning after as many as five classes may have been exposed to the virus last week. Interim New Rochelle Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero announced that a staff member at Albert Leonard Middle School has tested positive for COVID-19 and was last in the building on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Marrero said that through contact tracing, at least seven teachers and five “Cohort A” classes were potentially exposed, and have been instructed to quarantine. He noted that students in “Cohort B” will not require quarantine. Since the pandemic …
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Covid-
19: Westchester Middle School Teaching Assistant Dies From Virus
A teaching assistant at a Westchester middle school who died from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will be celebrated with a socially distant moment of silence. Joy Gaglia, who worked at Isaac E. Young Middle School in New Rochelle, was among the New Yorkers to die this week due to complications from COVID-19. At 11 a.m. on Monday, April 13, teachers and staff members at Isaac E. Young will pause for the long-time teaching assistant who was “beloved for her sense of humor, her kindness and willingness to help others,” the district announced. There will also be a moment of silence during the sch…
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Westchester School District In Danger Of Losing State Aid
The New Rochelle School District is in danger of losing state aid because two middle schools will not meet the required number of instructional hours for students. Parents were made aware of this issue this week when interim Superintendent Magda Parvey sent a letter detailing the issue at hand. The problem was discovered in December and district officials by the school’s lawyers. In the letter, Parvey pointed the finger at the former administration, which was helmed by former Superintendent Brian Osborne, who abruptly left his position in the district last year. Parvey said that there are n…
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