Second grade students from Chase Elementary School took a trip to the Hudson Highlands Museum in Cornwall on Friday, May 31. The students went on a nature walk looking for insects – they found them and got to examine them. The students had a great time learning about nature and how to be responsible caretakers …
After a series of summits, meetings and collaborative sessions between students, families, civic leaders and educators, the Monticello My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) program recently finalized its “Community Action Plan.” The document serves as a road map to making Monticello a “MBK Community” – a public commitment to providing strategies, resources and solutions to address achievement …
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On Tuesday, May 21, Monticello Central School District (MCSD) voters approved the district’s $91.2 million 2019-20 school budget 603 yes to 451 no votes. The $91,227,073 budget is below the district’s legal tax cap limit, preserves all existing programs, represents a 0.80 percent tax levy increase and an overall spending increase of 1.56 percent. “I …
What was it like to live during the Colonial Days? After a visit from Sheldon Stowe, Mrs. Eisenhardt’s and Mrs. Weiss’ students at Emma C. Chase Elementary School would probably be able to tell you! The students had a special guest that delivered a historical presentation of colonial times. Mr. Sheldon Stowe is a Social …
Monticello educators joined other community members from around Sullivan County for an intensive two-and-a-half-day ChildLight Yoga and Yoga4Classrooms training, courtesy of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County and funded by a grant from the NYS Department of Health. According to SueAnn Boyd, who is the Healthy Schools Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension, and was the …
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A group of Monticello Central School District science students spent the greater part of the day on Friday, May 10 calculating water pH levels, performing tests to determine how height and incline influence speed and conducting experiments to learn the difference between kinetic and potential energy. Although the tools they used were what you would …
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Mrs. Furman’s second-grade class at the Emma C. Chase School are learning about ways to keep our Earth clean. As a culminating activity the students went on a litter pluck as they walked down the streets of Wurtsboro. The class put on their gloves and went to work filling bags with garbage. The students were …
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Congratulations to the following Monticello Central School District employees who received tenure at the April 23 Board of Education meeting: Brendan Creegan Allyson Steinberg Katherine Truesdell Erika Vorstadt Steven Raabe Beata Saa Ellen Einhorn Jennifer Boffa Rebecca Frey-Ramos Lisa Hrbek Thomas Wharton Dennis Lankau Casey Titus Joelle Walz Megan Murray James McLaughlin Kelly Ann Olsen …
Voters in the Monticello Central School District will consider an $85.5 million “Classroom 2020: Phase II” bond referendum during the district’s annual school budget vote, which will be held on May 21. In a separate proposition, residents will also consider the creation of a $10 million capital reserve fund, similar to a savings fund, that …
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UPDATE, April 3, 4:49 p.m.: Please read the press release from the New York State Department of Education below for the most recent information. Please keep an eye out for more information from your child’s building principal via SchoolMessenger. From NYSED: Computer-based testing (CBT) of the state English Language Arts (ELA) tests will resume tomorrow …
