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15-Year-Old Boy Stabbed At Elementary School Playground In Mount Vernon 15-Year-Old Boy Stabbed At Elementary School Playground In Mount Vernon
15-Year-Old Boy Stabbed At Elementary School Playground In Mount Vernon A 15-year-old boy was hospitalized after being stabbed in the playground of an elementary school in Westchester.  The incident happened on Tuesday, March 26 just before 4 p.m., when a teenage boy was stabbed in the playground of Rebecca Turner Elementary School in Mount Vernon at 625 South 4th Ave., according to city officials. The boy was then taken to Jacobi Medical Center for treatment, where he is now in stable condition.  More information about the incident has not been released.  The investigation into the stabbing is now ongoing. Anyone with information about the inc…

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by Ben Crnic
Schools
Second Westchester Public School District Closes Due To Coronavirus Concerns Second Westchester Public School District Closes Due To Coronavirus Concerns
Second Westchester Public School District Closes Due To Coronavirus Concerns A second public school district in Westchester will be closed on Thursday, March 5 and Friday, March 6 due to concerns over the novel coronavirus. The two are the Mount Vernon City School District and Hastings Public Schools. "We have been advised by the physician of two of our students (same family, one at Columbus School and one at Rebecca Turner Elementary School) and their family have been quarantined for possible exposure to the Novel Coronavirus known as Novel 19," the Mount Vernon City School District said in a statement. "We have been further advised by the children’s physician tha…

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by Joe Lombardi
Schools
Westchester Has 17 Reward Schools Designated By State Education Department Westchester Has 17 Reward Schools Designated By State Education Department
Westchester Has 17 Reward Schools Designated By State Education Department A total of 22 schools in the Hudson Valley, including 17 in Westchester, were among 155 high achieving and high progress schools state-wide identified as Reward Schools by the State Education Department in an announcement made Thursday. To be identified as a Reward School, a school must: Be among the top 20 percent of schools in the state for English language arts (ELA) and math performance for both the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years or be among the top ten percent of schools in terms of gains in ELA and math performance in the 2016-17 school year; Have made Adequate Yearly Progress for …

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by Joe Lombardi
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Three Mount Vernon Schools Upgraded From Focus Schools To Good Standing Three Mount Vernon Schools Upgraded From Focus Schools To Good Standing
Three Mount Vernon Schools Upgraded From Focus Schools To Good Standing Good news keeps pouring in for the Mount Vernon School District. After years of student struggles, Columbus, Hamilton and Rebecca Turner elementary schools have been awarded designation upgrades to “schools in good standing” after being designated as “focus schools’ by the New York State Education Department. The NYSED defines a “school in good standing” as one “which has not been identified as a school in need of improvement, requiring corrective action, planning for restructuring, or requiring academic progress, or as a school under registration review.” School officials attributed the t…

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by Zak Failla