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School board accepts $5,478 bicycle grant and reviews co-teaching partnerships
Nov 20, 2025
Key Actions & Decisions
- ◆ Accepted a $5,478.00 CHEF grant for bicycles for kindergarten and first-grade students.
- ◆ Reviewed ENL, integrated co-teaching and pupil personnel data in a staff presentation.
- ◆ Approved co-curricular club charters and two Spencer Field electrical change orders.
- ◆ Approved amended minutes to include details of items previously described as presented.
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This article was generated from the official meeting minutes. All facts are footnoted to their source in the minutes.
The Croton-Harmon school board accepted a $5,478.00 grant to buy bicycles for kindergarten and first-grade students on November 20, 2025, during a work session that also examined partnerships in pupil personnel services.
This article is written solely from the meeting's official minutes; croton.news had no reporter present.
The Croton-Harmon Education Foundation grant was intended to help the younger students learn to ride. The six trustees listed as present voted in favor. When Omar Mayyasi asked about logistics and storage, Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen said those arrangements were being worked out and a shed was a possibility.
Anamika Bhatnagar said the village’s bicycle and pedestrian committee had met with Ms. Leslie about the grant and that further work with village members would address implementation and sustaining it. Allison Samuels described the grant as supporting equity and access.
The work-session presentation brought together Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Personnel Services Rachel DePaul and teachers from the elementary and high schools. Topics included ENL, integrated co-teaching, the Multi-Tiered System of Support and the Transition Support Program. The minutes also list classification rates, 504 accommodation plans, out-of-district placements and special-education English language arts proficiency among the data topics, without supplying numerical results.
Trustees approved co-curricular club charter applications. The high-school list identified Crochet Club, DJ Club, Fishing Club and Leaders of Tomorrow among the new clubs. It also included established activities, while the middle-school applications covered such activities as art, chess, coding and drama. The consent agenda separately approved advisor and co-curricular appointments at all three schools.
Two approved electrical change orders concerned Spencer Field. One added $3,600.73 for material and labor to extend float-switch wiring to the alarm panel for the new concession-stand grinder pumps. The other added $1,598.00 for a new flagpole light. Both were assigned to ER Electric Corp.
The board also approved amended minutes following a review of records from May 2023 onward. The stated purpose was to ensure that details of resolution items described as presented were captured in the relevant meeting minutes. The listed corrections involved records from 2023 and 2024.
Personnel actions included appointing Megan O’Leary as an elementary-school leave replacement at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School from November 21, 2025, through February 27, 2026. In committee reports, Neal Haber said Student Privacy Policy 5550 would move to a second reading at the December 4 meeting. The November 20 minutes record that next step, rather than adoption of the policy.
People
Anamika Bhatnagar (Board of Education President)
Sarah Carrier (Board of Education Vice President)
Neal Haber (Resident)
Ana Teague (Board of Education Trustee)
Omar Mayyasi (Board Trustee)
Allison Samuels (Board Trustee)
Denise Bisaccia (District Clerk (CHUFSD))
Pierre Van Cortlandt (Historical figure)
Stephen Walker (Superintendent of Schools)
Denise Harrington-Cohen (Superintendent (per minutes 2024-12-05 – 2026-01-08))
John Griffiths (Superintendent (per minutes 2025-02-13 – 2025-11-20))
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