The question of what happens after high school looms large for every child as they complete their educational journey. This question looms even larger for children with special needs. Special needs is a spectrum of abilities with students who need minimal assistance to students who need a great deal of assistance to achieve success. What …
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NYSDOH supports “Test To Stay” (TTS) as a strategy that allows asymptomatic, unvaccinated, school based close contacts (e.g. students, teachers, school staff) to avoid school exclusion (but not other restrictions of quarantine) by testing negative through serial testing using rapid NAAT or antigen tests during a seven-day period following exposure. The Orange County Department of …
NYS Digital Equity Survey To collectively serve students, families, and educators, it is imperative that districts and the New York State Education Department have, and maintain, an updated, accurate, complete picture of the state of digital equity for each individual student. Therefore, the NYS Education Department is requiring that a short 9-question Digital Equity survey …
Sourav Sengupta, a University of Buffalo professor and an expert in child and adolescent mental health, says “our children will need to grow up to find a reasonable way to incorporate, tolerate and utilize social technologies in their lives”. Trusted adults can support young people is by setting age- and developmentally appropriate boundaries. He suggests …
Until further notice, all indoor athletic contests hosted by Valley Central will have a spectator limitation of two spectators per athlete.
The Art and Music Departments at Valley Central are doing great things throughout the district. Keep up with everything going on in the departments at those pages. Visit our Art At Valley Central page at https://www.vcsd.k12.ny.us/academics/art-at-valley-central/ Visit our Music At Valley Central page at https://www.vcsd.k12.ny.us/academics/music-at-valley-central/
Medline Seeks to Have Assessment Reduced by 81% Which Will Negatively Impact School Taxes As you may recall, many in our school district and community were pleased with Medline’s decision to withdraw as a PILOT and proceed with building a facility in Montgomery. Regrettably, Medline has recently filed with the Supreme Court asking to have …
Philip Rodriguez, Secondary School Asst. Principal, HS Allison Simoskevich, Secondary School Asst. Principal, HS Sarah Rosenwasser, Social Studies, HS Amanda Gliedman, Science, HS Alisa Podgorskaya, School Psychologist, HS Denyse LaVallie, Business, HS Daniel Walker, Music, HS Brittany Bilodeau, Art, HS Kaitlyn Bruna, Social Studies, HS Thomas Stoddard, Phys. Ed., MS Joanna Sandve, English, MS Kathryn …
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Section IX Fall 2021 COVID-19 Protocol Guidelines The Section IX Protocol Committee has developed a set of guidelines for the Fall 2021 season. These guidelines are subject to change based on any future mandates from the Governor, the State Department of Health, the local County Departments of Health, the State Education Department or the NYSPHSAA. …
Questions and Answers regarding the 2021-2022 Back to School Plan have been added to that webpage. The questions were collected via Google Form from August 17-August 20, 2021 and presented during Public Participation at the August 23, 2021 BOE meeting.
