Education

The East Hampton School District took the lead about a year ago to apply for a state grant for radio upgrades on behalf of all schools in the town, and has received word it will receive $125,000 to share among those districts.

A report released earlier this month by the New York State comptroller says schools in the state collectively reported more than 32,000 violent or disruptive incidents in the 2017-18 school year, but specific data show very few of those incidents taking place locally.

The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will celebrate the end of summer and the conclusion of the summer reading club with a party on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.

The Sag Harbor School District may not move its prekindergarten classes to the new Sag Harbor Learning Center until mid-November because construction there is still underway, officials said Monday night.

After successfully piloting a summer camp for the last several weeks, a new educational center in East Hampton Village will kick off the coming school year with daily programs for toddlers and after-school activities for elementary children.

Michelle Taveras, Rob Rivera, and Alex Bates are East Hampton High School Bonackers in more than one way. They are East Hampton alumni, with Ms. Taveras and Mr. Rivera having graduated in 2011 and Ms. Bates in 2013 — and now, they have been hired as teachers in the school district.

“Substantial equivalency” is not a new term for independent schools in New York State, but a new set of regulations mandating just that, proposed by the New York State Education Department, has garnered mixed responses from officials at local private schools.

Janice Blair Whalen would have loved the idea of sending two children from the Linstead School, in an economically disadvantaged area in Jamaica, to the Ross School’s summer camp, her husband, Richard Whalen, said.

Butterflies, painting, homemade ice cream, a portable planetarium, and a reptile and amphibian show are coming to the East Hampton Library in what is the final full week of summer vacation for most kids.

“Every year, we always assess whether or not we have the ability to do two teams, a J.V. and a varsity, to give our kids the maximum experience,” Mr. White said. “Sometimes as a freshman and sophomore you do a lot of sitting and watching. This particular year, considering we graduated multiple players . . . we noticed there was a burst of underclassmen in comparison to the upperclassmen.”

As the Springs School progresses in its installation of a new septic system, crews doing the digging discovered impermeable soils that have to be excavated and replaced by different fill for the septic system to function properly.

Come September, students, parents, and community members of the Bridgehampton School District will enter through a renovated vestibule featuring a secured entrance system. The receptionist, instead of sitting at a desk in the front hallway, will sit in a new office behind a thick glass window and “buzz in” visitors.

But members of the Bridgehampton School Board have taken issue with the type of window that was installed, saying Tuesday the school architect never gave them any options beforehand.