Riverhead Charter School

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

The students of the Riverhead Charter School will be learning about environmental issues in the second annual Earth Day Festival.

“Every other school in this town has a school zone,” said Laurie Behrhof, Riverhead Charter School teacher. “Why don’t we?” Her sixth graders have been drafting a petition to establish a school zone outside Riverhead Charter School on Route 25, where the speed limit is 50 miles per hour.

After two years of construction, Riverhead Charter School is officially operating out of its new $14.1 million school building, which it unveiled at a...