New interim business administrator
appointed
The Board of Education
appointed on Monday a
40-year veteran of the
education system to serve as
interim business
administrator.
Senior symposium designed to
offer lessons not typically
found in school
A morning-long event at RCS
on March 26 is designed to
provide the type of
education to high school
seniors that they have not
been able to find in text
books and classrooms during
their previous 13 years of
schooling.
BOE
schedules budget meetings
The Board of Education will
meet each of the next two
weeks as the draft 2008-09
budget is placed under the
microscope.
Driver
shortage forces RCS to shift
gears
After taking the fast lane
for the past few years to
handling nearly all
transportation needs in
house, those efforts have
hit a bump pin the road as a
result of the severe driver
shortage.
As reported on Channel 13,
Math 6-8 assessments delayed
The New York State
Mathematics Assessments for
grades 6, 7 and 8 will be
given on March 11th and
March 12th. This is a
change from the original
dates of March 6th and 7th.
High school to host blood
drive
today
The High School Student
Government Organization will
host a blood drive on
Thursday.
Senior
symposium designed to offer help not typically found in
schools
A morning-long event at
RCS on March 26 is designed to provide the type of
education to high school seniors that they have not been
able to find in text books and classrooms during their
previous 13 years of schooling.
Middle School faculty
honored
Two longtime faculty
members who are retiring
at the end of the school
year were honored by the
Board of Education on
Monday.
Middle School students
honored
More than 100 students
were honored by the
Board of Education and
administration Monday.
Students honored for spelling,
cooking expertise and more
Several
Middle School students were honored for academic
achievements in and out of the classroom at Monday's
Board of Education meeting.
SAT prep course being offered
The RCS
Continuing Education Program is offering a SAT
preparatory course just in time for those taking the
assessment this spring.
Pre-k to serve all who
met application deadline
Every applicant who met
the Feb. 15 for applying to the RCS pre-kindergarten
program for the coming school year will be placed in the
program.
The RCS school district is
in contact with air quality and safety representatives
following a newspaper report on Thursday that a
significant amount of mercury has been released into the
air from the LaFarge Cement Plant.
The Middle School French club will be
delivering this eek chocolate bunnies to residents who
ordered them.
As reported on Fox 23, students and faculty wear pajamas to school
Elementary school students
and faculty at RCS donned their war pajamas when heading
to school on Monday as they took part in a celebration
of reading and Dr. Seuss.
