Education


Rye High School
Despite the essentially flat tax cap for the 2016-2017 budget year, the Rye City School District superintendent presented a proposed budget on Feb. 9 that is balanced thanks to the use of $2.5 million from the reserve fund. Under this year’s state tax cap, schools are limited to increasing upcoming...

Rye High School
Despite the essentially flat tax cap for the 2016-2017 budget year, the Rye City School District superintendent presented a proposed budget on Feb. 9 that is balanced thanks to the use of $2.5 million from the reserve fund. Under this year’s state tax cap, schools are limited to increasing upcoming...

What would the Three Little Pigs be without sticks, bricks and straw? In the front row, from left, brick broker Michael Kmetz, stick merchant Lindsay Cassano and straw purveyor Baker Wells get ready to entice the pigs with building materials. In the back row, from left, Atlee Teillon and Nicholas Field play piggies. Photos courtesy Sarah Derman
Milton School was crowded with little piggies, a few pioneers and some recent prominent people from history during the week of March 14. Approximately 60 first-graders performed the “3 Piggies Opera” in four separate shows. A musical version of “The Three Little Pigs,” the opera has been an annual...

A cafeteria aide helps Carter Ryan, 6, scrape off his leftover food into the correct discard bin in the Midland School cafeteria. Photos courtesy Emily Keenan
Midland Elementary School students have learned to scrape, plop and pour their lunchtime waste into the correct bins with such success that lunch now generates 200 pounds of trash a month instead of 3,000 pounds. Before the We Future Cycle Zero Waste program was implemented a month ago, trash from...
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