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Video: PMHS National English Honor Society inducts new members

April 13, 2021

Earlier this school year, the National English Honor Society welcomed inductees from Pelham Memorial High School. The virtual ceremony, which can be viewed on Youtube, featured a keynote address by Dr....

Video: Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society announces officers, new members

April 12, 2021

Earlier this school year, the Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society welcomed inductees from Pelham Memorial High School. The virtual ceremony, which can be viewed on Youtube, featured a keynote address...

Survey responses in Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champs presentation.

PMS will switch to full-time in person April 19; PMHS to get expanded hybrid April 26 due to space issues

By Cristina Stefanizzi, Staff Reporter
April 9, 2021

Pelham Middle School will return to full-time, in-person learning April 19, while Pelham Memorial High School will instead move to a "more robust" hybrid model April 26 because it has more students and...

Video: Mu Alpha Theta (math honor society) welcomes inductees, officers

April 9, 2021

Earlier this school year, Mu Alpha Theta (the math honor society) welcomed inductees from Pelham Memorial High School. The virtual ceremony, which can be viewed on Youtube, featured a keynote address by...

Video: PMHS Science National Honor Society welcomes inductees, officers

April 8, 2021

Earlier this school year, the Science Honor Society welcomed inductees from Pelham Memorial High School. The virtual ceremony, which can be viewed on Youtube, featured a keynote address by Dr. Steven Garcia,...

Board of education discusses reopening plans, new state testing requirements

Board of education discusses reopening plans, new state testing requirements

By Cristina Stefanizzi, Staff Reporter
March 26, 2021

Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champ and members of the community reopening task force gave an update regarding a return to full-time in-person learning at Wednesday's board of education meeting. Elementary...

Hutch shares cultures of 21 countries during Virtual International Day

By Mila Banfield, Staff Reporter
March 26, 2021

Hutchinson School didn't let Covid-19 stop it from having its annual International Day. Parents and students did it virtually, with families submitting videos representing their various nationalities....

Owen-Michaane seeks board seat after hearing Champs call for medical expertise

Owen-Michaane seeks board seat after hearing Champ’s call for medical expertise

By Cristina Stefanizzi, Staff Reporter
March 23, 2021

During a February school board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Cheryl Champ asked for help from medical experts in the district in the effort to reopen schools safely. Dr. Michael Owen-Michaane...

Art work by Emily in fourth grade at Siwanoy School.

Art work by Siwanoy students featured in ‘Outside My Window’ museum exhibit

March 23, 2021

Last May, the Hudson River Museum invited teachers and students to submit images or writing reflecting what they could see outside their window. The “Outside My Window” exhibit, which includes pieces...

The first two of five major recommendations from the report on the racial equity audit done by the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.

Problems revealed in equity audit are lived experience for BIPOC grad and parents, who call for changes

By Sophia Leung and Cristina Stefanizzi
March 22, 2021

As a person of color who went through the Pelham school system, Nora Tahbaz read nothing in the district’s racial equity report that was a surprise. It was her lived experience. Tahbaz, a Pelham Memorial...

Pelham school district to receive $622,000 from federal Covid-19 relief bill

Pelham school district to receive $622,000 from federal Covid-19 relief bill

March 22, 2021

The Pelham Union Free School District will receive $622,000 from the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 pandemic rescue funding approved by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden, according to a press...

School board president talks about racial equity moves including Princeton Plan, restorative justice

School board president talks about racial equity moves including Princeton Plan, restorative justice

By Cristina Stefanizzi and Sophia Leung
March 18, 2021

Pelham Board of Education President Jessica DeDomenico said enacting the Princeton Plan as recommended in the district's report on racial equity "solves a lot of the concerns around race and equity" but...

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