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Mayor Mike Spano: “Albany needs to hear our voices”

YONKERS - Come 2029, the city's schools may be unrecognizable to those who know them today. Under a proposed 13-year, $2 billion overhaul, the district's 39 buildings would be completely revamped, and two new schools added. That would be a far cry from a 2010 state survey that determined only two of them to be in satisfactory [...]

By |February 3rd, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Mayor Mike Spano: “Albany needs to hear our voices”

Mayor Mike Spano & Yonkers Public Schools Launch Advocacy Campaign to Rebuild Yonkers Schools

Post Date:02/01/2016 4:26 PM YONKERS, NY – February 1, 2016 – Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, City Council President Liam J. McLaughlin, Yonkers City Council, School Board President Dr. Nader J. Sayegh and the Board of Education Trustees along with Dr. Edwin M. Quezada, Superintendent of Schools today launched Rebuild Yonkers Schools, a public advocacy campaign to [...]

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Yonkers Launching Schools Advocacy Campaign

Almost 76 percent of students in Yonkers are eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches and almost 11 percent of students are English-language learners. Yonkers is launching an advocacy campaign aimed at persuading state officials to pass a $2 billion construction plan for the city's 39 public schools. The average age of the Yonkers school [...]

By |January 28th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Yonkers Launching Schools Advocacy Campaign
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