Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Tonight’s message covers the public hearing that will be held on the proposed 2020-21 School Budget. At its last meeting, the Board of Education adopted a budget for next school year based on the state aid awarded to Pine Bush in the state’s adopted budget and dropping the district’s …
Vote will be via absentee ballot only; three candidates running for two board seats Pine Bush Central School District residents will vote on a $121,587,157 million budget on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, an increase of 2.37 percent from the current budget. The tax levy for this budget – the amount raised by taxes – would …
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Pine Bush honored its spring season athletes and high school seniors in a symbolic way Wednesday evening by lighting up the high school field in their honor. The lights were on May 20, starting at 8:20 (or 20:20 military time) for 20 minutes and 20 seconds to honor the spring athletes who lost their season, …
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Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Tonight’s message covers our end of the year planning. At this point, since we didn’t take any spring recess, our students will have met their 180-day state requirement for school attendance on Friday June 12. So Friday, June 12, will be the last day of virtual instruction here in …
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While the Pine Bush Central School District school buildings have been closed since mid-March, much has been going on within the district, including with our Food Service Department. The Pine Bush Central School District served 21,218 meals in two days last week. Quite an achievement considering when school was in session, the weekly meals averaged …
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The Pine Bush Central School District has hired Angela Wise to serve as executive director of Human Resources, Data and School Counseling. Wise has an extensive resume in business and educational leadership. She earned a Master of Science in Education for educational leadership from Pace University as well as a Master of Business Administration from …
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Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Tonight’s message is about a special survey we have designed about our free meals for kids program. As I hope you all know, we have been distributing meals (breakfast and lunch) for any child in the district under the age of 19 for several weeks now. So far, we …
Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, Tonight’s message is about our school elections that were postponed by Governor Cuomo from the third Tuesday in May to now occur on Tuesday, June 9. However, since you can only vote by absentee ballot, you’ll have to mail your ballot well before that date, because we won’t be …
Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, I hope you are having a relaxing and rewarding weekend. I have a couple of important announcements today. First is news about the free masks that I mentioned in some previous calls that have now arrived for us to distribute. These cloth, washable masks come five to a package, …
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Dear Pine Bush parents and staff, In a previous update, I indicated that we have had a team working on addressing how students and staff might be able to get things that they had left at school and return school property. I have now received the initial report from that team. They would like to …
