Education Briefs for January 27
Lessons on personal safety in Sag Harbor, and Assemblyman Thiele facilitates a grant for the Springs School.
Family to Appeal Ross School Ruling
When State Supreme Court Justice William J. Condon ruled on Dec. 7 in favor of the Ross School in a lawsuit claiming that Hayden Soloviev was a victim of bullying and that his teachers were negligent as chaperones during an overseas field trip, the former Ross student said he was shocked. The Soloviev family has filed a notice of intent to appeal, The Star confirmed this week.
Montauk Students' Very Own TED Talks
TED Talks have been around since 1984. The Montauk School’s annual eighth-grade Speech Day has been around almost as long. Coincidence? Probably, but the two long-running programs share a common thread.
Overspent by 20 Percent on Stella Maris Transformation
Auditors suggested the overspending was the result of multiple staffing shifts in the school’s business office, two changes in the architectural firms overseeing the work, and an evolving completion date and scope of the project.