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Riverhead Central School District

Riverhead students use ‘giving trees’ to collect gifts, make Christmas brighter for families in need

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Christmas can be a stressful time for families going through hard financial times, but the students, staff and teachers of Riverhead's schools are helping them out.

Greg Blass Charter schools have led a barely perceptible but much-needed revolution in public education

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Charter schools have opened the way for wider acceptance of school choice and the "no excuse" college prep schools for low-income kids.

School district plans upgrade of its decade-old technology network with state ‘Smart Schools Bond Act’ funding

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The cost of the $813,000 internet and technology infrastructure upgrade will be paid with some of the Smart Schools Bond Act funds allocated to Riverhead by the state.

Charter school principal, citing Riverhead focus school designations, says charter expansion offers more parents choice

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The charter school principal has publicly criticized the Riverhead school district for its "inability to properly educate" minority students.

School superintendent: After ‘focus school’ notice, 43 students transfer from Roanoke and Phillips to Aquebogue

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Aquebogue Elementary School will add a new classroom to accommodate the transfers, Superintendent Nancy Carney said today. All class sizes will remain within contractual limits, she said.

School superintendent gets an earful of parent concerns about school choice

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At least a dozen people questioned Superintendent Nancy Carney at last night's school board meeting about the district's plan to allow Roanoke Avenue and Phillips Avenue students the option to transfer to Aquebogue School.

Meet some of Riverhead School District’s 43 new professional staff members

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An eager group of new teachers and other professionals worked hard during the three-day New Teacher Institute designed to help them integrate as seamlessly as possible into the school district.

Representing 900+ combined years of service, 39 Riverhead school district faculty and staff are retiring

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Board of Education honored retirees, as well as faculty granted tenure at its last regular meeting of the school term June 21.

RHS announces perfect attendance awards

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Forty-nine students earned perfect attendance awards in Riverhead this year.
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