I am very excited to announce that with a substantial increase in state funding, the Pine Bush Central School District will be able to offer a full-day pre-K program beginning next fall – for the 2021-2022 school year! That means we will no longer be offering the half-day program. The pre-K students will follow the …
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UPDATE: Miss the Odyssey awards live stream? Watch the video here! Tuesday, May 4, we are recognizing our Pine Bush students who participated in Odyssey of the Mind. The awards and recognition ceremony will be held at Pine Bush High School at 5 p.m. with health restrictions in place. However, if you would like to …
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Dear Pine Bush faculty, staff, and parents, Ever since we announced that we would replace our hybrid schedule of two days a week with a four-day schedule, in what we have been calling our “Return to More Learning,” we have also said that we fully intended to transition this new model into a full five-day-a-week …
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Here is a message from high school principals throughout Orange County. Their message is a united one: We are working together to bring out the best in everyone. We got this!
Pine Bush High School is the first high school in the country to receive a Gene Haas Foundation grant for manufacturing education. The district will receive $250,000 and build the Gene Haas Innovation Center, doubling the square footage of the school’s Science Technology Engineering Art and Math (STEAM) area. “This is a big deal for …
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The fire inspection was conducted on the temporary tent structure at Crispell Middle School. The inspection was completed on April 21, 2021. The Public School Fire and Safety Report is available at the district office
Good evening Pine Bush families and staff, I’m calling with two important messages. The first is an update to our plans for Return to More Learning – that’s what we’ve been calling the increase from two to four days a week of in-person or synchronous instruction. As you know, we had to pause our plans …
Fund balance, increased state aid will be used for increase in budget Pine Bush Central School District residents will vote on a $125,891,597 million budget on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, which includes a 3 percent decrease in the tax levy. This budget is an overall increase of $4,304,440, or 3.54 percent, over the current year’s …
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The Pine Bush Central School District will erect a 60-foot by 40-foot tent in the back parking lot of Crispell Middle School to create the extra space needed to get in-person students attending classes four days each week as planned. The district needed more space at Crispell to honor the six feet distance for high …
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Good afternoon Pine Bush families and staff, I’m calling about our plans to Return to More Learning slated to begin this week. The new guidelines from the NYS Department of Health indicate that in areas of high transmission of the coronavirus, middle school and high school students must maintain 6 feet of social distancing everywhere …
