During Regents Week, Jan. 21-24, 2020, Liberty Lines will run on their normal schedule morning and afternoon. The midday pick-up and drop-off runs for New Rochelle High School will be covered by yellow buses. Find the schedule here:
The District has moved its sports calendar to a new platform. View the Athletics Schedule here.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (July 29, 2019) – The City School District of New Rochelle has appointed Gregory W. Kern as the new Assistant Superintendent for Business. The Board of Education approved Kern’s appointment at its meeting tonight. He officially begins the position with the School District on or before October 1, 2019.
Kern currently serves as the Assistant Superintendent for Finance at the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, a position he has held since 2016. He has also served as Assistant Superintendent for Administration at the Enlarged City School District of Middletown; and as the Assistant Superintendent for Business at the Washingtonville Central School District. In addition, he has served in administrative positions with the Greater Southern Tier BOCES, Amherst (NY) Central School District, Newark (NY) Central School District and Medina (NY) Central School District.
He has overseen several major bond construction programs including one for $100 million for the Elmira City School District while he was at BOCES and a recently passed $257 million bond project in Newburgh.
“We are looking forward to Mr. Kern bringing his extensive administrative background, leading business offices within school districts for the past 16 years,” said Interim Superintendent Dr. Magda Parvey. “This experience demonstrates that he is an excellent fit for New Rochelle as our next Assistant Superintendent for Business.”
In his latest position in Newburgh, Kern oversees a general fund budget of $282 million in a school district with a student population of 11,500.
“Mr. Kern has the experience of working in large school districts and will help continue the District’s efforts to maximize value for our taxpayers while also prioritizing education for our students,” Board of Education President Amy Moselhi said.
Kern is a member of the Newburgh school district superintendent’s cabinet, working closely with other assistant superintendents as well as curriculum, pupil services and human resources.
“I am excited to come to the City School District of New Rochelle and join this leadership team,” Kern said. “I am eager to get started and support the District’s efforts to remain fiscally sensitive while providing great educational value for our students.”
About the City School District of New Rochelle
With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high-quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (July 9, 2019) – The Board of Education of the City School District of New Rochelle and the New Rochelle Federation of United School Employees (FUSE), the union representing teachers, other pedagogic staff and school-related professionals, are pleased to announce that the parties have reached a tentative settlement for a successor agreement.
The agreement is subject to ratification by the Union membership and the Board, which the parties anticipate occurring in the early fall.
The District and FUSE are excited to have reached a settlement that benefits all and demonstrates the deep appreciation the District holds for its teachers, other pedagogic staff and school-related professionals. All are looking forward to a productive 2019-2020 school year.
Moselhi Chosen as President, Warhit as Vice President
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (July 5, 2019) – New Rochelle Board of Education chose its leadership Tuesday, July 2, naming Amy Moselhi President and Paul Warhit Vice President. The selections came at the annual reorganizational meeting, at which new members William Iannuzzi and Valarie D. Williams were also sworn in.
Moselhi served the past year as Board Vice President with President Jeffrey Hastie, who did not run for re-election when his term was up this spring.
Moselhi and Warhit were both elected to the Board in 2017.
“It is a great honor to serve in the capacity of President of the Board of Education for the City School District of New Rochelle,” Moselhi said after taking the oath of office at the meeting in Central Administration. “It is a responsibility that I take very seriously and that I hope I will fulfill in a way that makes each and every member of the city confident that your voices have been heard and that your concerns are always a part of the fabric in the decisions that we make.”
A civil engineer by trade, Moselhi is Chief Executive of United Structure Solution, a Brooklyn firm that designs and installs high-end ornamental metal work and glass. Warhit is a past president of Devonshire Discount Tire & Auto Centers.
Williams is a teacher and K-12 reading specialist in the Greenburgh Central School District. Iannuzzi serves as Director of Programs for the Boys & Girls Clubs of New Rochelle.
The Board’s nine members serve five-year terms.
About the City School District of New Rochelle
With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high-quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.
Members of the Class of 2019 were awarded hundreds of scholarships, trophies, certificates and other prizes in the New Rochelle High School Senior Awards Assembly and Senior Awards Ceremony. Both ceremonies were held in the Whitney M. Young Jr. Auditorium. Find the honorees here:
The following link opens a list of the students who received awards in the Senior Awards Assembly held Friday, June 14 at 9:30 a.m.
Senior Awards Assembly honorees 
The following link opens a list of the students who received awards in the Senior Awards Ceremony held Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m.
Senior Awards Ceremony honorees 
Two faculty members received the Donald J. Conetta Service Award. They were:
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Forty New Rochelle High School students were treated to healthy dishes including beet bruschetta with hummus and sweet potato and parsnip soup served by their schoolmates recently.
The student cooks in the Science of Food class whipped up dishes from their own recipes with farm-to-table, sustainable ingredients as the culmination of a semester-long "Food Ed" program with the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.
They studied personal and cultural connections to food as well as topics of sustainability. The lessons focused on many facets of agriculture, even caring for the soil itself.
"They studied how to maintain healthy soil, how to restore depleted soil and how the foods that you choose to grow have an impact on that living skin of the earth," teacher Julia Chillemi Kouyoumdjian said.
For the lunch event, Chillemi Kouyoumdjian's 30 students prepared, cooked and served the meal to two other classes in Room 207. The focus was "mindful eating," which "increases your awareness of the positive and nurturing opportunities that are available through food selection and preparation," their menu explains. It continues, "Eating mindfully is a practice that uses all your senses in choosing to eat food that is both satisfying to you and nourishing to your body."
They chose ingredients from the Stone Barns farm; others were sustainably sourced. In addition to the bruschetta and the sweet potato soup, there was kale risotto, "classic farm soup" and a seasonal salad. With each course came a story about how people can share their cultures by sharing foods, how food can be a form of medicine and how healthy soil leads to more nutritious ingredients.
Students who took the class said they planned to eat healthier and to spread the word about the connection between how we grow food and the world around us.
"I commit to eating healthy foods and staying away from bad foods that may be detrimental to my health," Gillian Okaiteye wrote in an action plan questionnaire.
Several said they would start their own gardens or join a community garden. Nick Calderone said he would like to help his mother cook and perhaps even make the family dinner on his own. Colin Logan, like many others, said he would let others know what he had learned.
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Dear Barnard Families:
We are excited to welcome back our returning students and extend a heartfelt welcome to our new students for the 2019-2020 school year! I am so excited to welcome our new Assistant Principal, Candice Lee. Mrs. Lee comes to Barnard with over 17 years of experience working with children in the primary grades and specializes in Bilingual/ENL education and inclusive practices.
We look forward to continuing our vision - teaching the whole child and creating a passion for lifelong learning for every student in our Barnard community. Your children will have the opportunity to learn and grow together as a community, and individually as a result of a wide variety of teaching and learning modalities that meet both the academic and social/emotional needs of children. Barnard Early Childhood Center’s teachers and staff take pride in our abilities to understand the development of children in their most formative years of brain development. We believe in the practice of ALL means ALL as it pertains to every child’s potential and ability to learn.
In addition, we are committed to keeping the lines of communication open for all parents/guardians. You are always welcome to email your child’s teachers, and meet with them personally through parent teacher conferences to discuss your child’s progress and needs. Establishing a positive home-school connection is a primary goal for us as we recognize and value this connection and its direct correlation to academic achievement. We are also available to answer questions via email and to meet whenever the need arises.
At Barnard, your children will have fun learning and playing together, and growing in every area of child development. Cheers to another great school year! To the newest members of our community, welcome to a very special place to be with people who cherish each opportunity to help children achieve their potential.
Dr. Nicolas Cracco
Principal
Candice Lee
Assistant Principal
Dear Parents and Guardians,
The City School District of New Rochelle is launching electronic report cards across the district for this school year. Parents of students in grades PreK, K, 1 and 2 will use the Home Access Center (HAC) to view report cards, rather than receive printed copies.
The following is important in order for you to be able to view your child’s report card:
All parent email addresses have been entered into our student information system using current emergency cards. If you changed your email address AFTER September 2019 and have not notified Barnard’s main office, please send your updated email address to Ms. Daisy Guizar at dguizar@nredlearn.org
You can log onto Home Access by going to https:// hac.lhric.org/HomeAccess OR by going to Barnard’s Homepage at barnard.nred.org. Once there, click on Parents and Community. Then click on Home Access Center for Parents and Guardians. On the reverse side of this letter is your Home Access username and password, and visual instructions on how to log onto Home Access.
Queridos padres y guardianes,
El Distrito Escolar de la Ciudad de New Rochelle está lanzando boletas de calificaciones electrónicas en todo el distrito para este año escolar. Los padres de estudiantes en los grados PreK, K, 1 y 2 usarán el Centro de acceso al hogar (HAC) para ver las boletas de calificaciones, en lugar de recibir copias impresas.
Lo siguiente es importante para que pueda ver la boleta de calificaciones de su hijo:
Todas las direcciones de correo electrónico de los padres se han ingresado en nuestro sistema de información estudiantil utilizando tarjetas de emergencia actuales. Si cambió su dirección de correo electrónico DESPUÉS de septiembre de 2019 y no ha notificado a la oficina principal de Barnard, envíe su dirección de correo electrónico actualizada a la Sra. Daisy Guizar a dguizar@nredlearn.org
Puede iniciar sesión en Home Access yendo a https: // hac.lhric.org/HomeAccess O yendo a la página de inicio de Barnard en barnard.nred.org. Una vez allí, haga clic en Padres y comunidad. Luego haga clic en Home Access Center para padres y tutores. En el reverso de esta carta se encuentra su nombre de usuario y contraseña de Home Access, y las instrucciones visuales sobre cómo iniciar sesión en Home Access.
The students learning Italian at Henry Barnard Early Childhood Center were enchanted this week by The Italian Fairy, who often brings them a touch of Italy, and who this week also brought them a moment of fame.
Seventy Barnard students, decked in red, white and green, danced with Simona Rodano, known internationally as La Fata Italiana, in the Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan on Monday.
“It was very, very fun,” said first grader Benicio Mercado. The students danced on the red carpet, in front of the ABC TV cameras and a live audience. “That made me feel a little bit nervous” Mercado said. “But then I saw that it wasn’t that scary.”
It was a fitting outing for students who learn much more than the language at Barnard. They learn about Italian culture, art, food and inventions. Simona Rodano has visited the Italian classes at Barnard, bringing lessons about her home country. “It kind of feels like we’re there when we’re with her,” said second grader Sarah Godoy.
They have learned enough about Italy, that some of them hope to travel there. That was the case with second grader Aisha Haneeth. The correct last name is Hameeth. She already speaks English and Spanish and is learning Tamil and Arabic from her father. She is adding Italian to her repertoire with Barnard teacher Anna Bruno. “When I go to Italy, I want to know what they’re saying, and I want to speak so that they understand what I say,” she said.
When the Italian Fairy saw the Barnard students practice the Tarantella last May, she knew they had to be in the parade. “The students were so enthusiastic about this dance that she said, “OK, next year I will bring the students onto the red carpet with me,’” Bruno recalled.
The dance lasted about three minutes, with Simona Rodano singing while the students from Barnard and one other school dance.
When it was over, Simona Rodano had a message for the students, too. In a note on the school’s website, she said the students “honored with their talent the beauty of being together on the red carpet cheering for Italy today. There are also 194 other countries in the world full of beauty that can be celebrated with gratefulness and appreciation. That’s how PEACE and BEAUTY can grow, l believe.”
The Italian teacher Anna Bruno says that the opportunity to participate into workshops and programs organized by the Italian Fairy is highly valued by the entire Barnard Community. The authentic Italian experiences have enriched the life of the students and their learning.
Italian Teacher, Mrs. Bruno says that through the Italian Program the students have come to love the Italian culture and the country that they feel they know but they have not yet visited. She believes these experiences at Barnard will stay with them for the rest of their life.
For more information regarding Barnard's PTA, please visit http://barnardpta.org/
On January 31st, 2019 thanks to a grant from the Barnard PTA, we had The Westchester Children’s Museum (located at Playland in Rye on the boardwalk), come host a literacy and STEAM workshop for all of the Kindergarten students at Barnard School. Students re-read and reenacted one of our favorite story books, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. They learned to be engineers and build a bridge using different materials. They tested the different blocks, sticks, and building materials to build a bridge tall enough to fit the Troll under the bridge and strong enough to hold the small, medium, and large Billy Goat Gruffs. All of the students had a wonderful time testing out their building structures, working together to make their bridges stronger, and experimenting with different materials. Thank you Barnard PTA and Westchester Children’s Museum!
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New Rochelle Barnard students are fabulous waste sorters. The whole school populations has never seen anything but carefully separating their lunch waste into excess liquid, food waste, and recyclable and non-recyclable packaging.
Students know to walk up to the recycling station after lunch and sort their left overs, under the caring and watchful eye of Nick, the lunchroom cleaner.
Recently, We Future Cycle presenters were invited to play some more with the students all around sustainability and material identification.
Knowing what is recyclable and what not is the key to doing it right. Wishful recycling, as in just putting stuff into the green bin, is actually counter productive and creates many problems at the material recovery facility in Yonkers.
Students sat in front of a large pile of common packaging material of all types and were playfully “helping” the presenter to place the items into the correct bin. Most rigid packaging materials made out of plastics, aluminum, carton or glass are fully recyclable in Westchester County.
We Future Cycle shared with the adults in the room that Styrofoam contains Styrene, which is now a classified human carcinogen and banned in New York City, with legislation on the books in Albany to make it a state wide ban.
Students also learned that it is easy to avoid making trash. We Future Cycle presenters shared with them just how much they personally did not like to create trash.
Students learned that -oh big surprise- gold fish taste the same if they are packaged in a plastic zip lock baggie or in a reusable container. After learning about where the trash goes and that baggies end up in the trash, every single one of them responsibly voted that reusable containers are a much better choice for our world.
A harder sell were juice pouches. Juice pouches are one of the worst packaging offenders in existence. Valuable aluminum foil is sandwiched between two layers of plastic. Unrecyclable and thus adding to the whopping 2500 tons of trash generated in Westchester County every single day. All for 2 min of sugar laced drink. Students learned and agreed, that a reusable water bottle is a much better idea for our world.
