Figure out financing to rebuild Yonkers schools: Editorial
Yonkers' School 5 opened in 1884, the year when "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was first published and the cornerstone was laid for the Statue of Liberty. It's no wonder then that a standpipe burst [...]
Yonkers school reconstruction bill gets Cuomo’s OK
ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Friday that allows Yonkers to create a new authority to oversee its $2 billion reconstruction of the city schools. The state Legislature approved the bill in the waning days of the [...]
Spano goes to Albany for schools rebuilding plan
This is the latest installment in our ongoing coverage of Yonkers' troubled school system. Mike Spano rolls deep. Spano crowds into McGeary’s Irish Pub in Albany as he does most everything — surrounded by a crew [...]
Yonkers rallies for $2B school rebuilding plan
For years, the Yonkers school district has been underserved and underfunded. With most of its schools crumbling and many of its students struggling, the district every year begs the state for millions of dollars to [...]
Don’t let the Yonkers schools rot: Editorial
When Yonkers students say goodbye for summer on June 24, they deserve to go their separate ways with the knowledge that their cracking, leaking, steaming — and potentially dangerous — school buildings will finally be rebuilt. This will only be the case if the [...]
Editorial: If not now, when? Fix Yonkers’ schools
It's time for Albany to commit to rebuilding Yonkers' crumbling schools Consensus is rarely achieved in the City of Yonkers. About anything. But there is one thing about which virtually everyone agrees: The city's 39 [...]