Kimberly is not running: What next?

The candidates for school board for Riverhead Central School District have been nominated and placed in ballot order. Kimberly Wilder has decided not to run for the 2024/2025 school year. RASi was able to support a lot of great changes to the budget. And, we hope to continue working with parent activists and the district…

Newsies musical at Riverhead HS and more…

(Reflections on excellence at Riverhead High School: Our plays are wonderful! Our music program is excellent! We have some great ENL and bilingual courses. Now…Let’s save the Dual Language Program, too!) Petition to Save The Dual Language Program Photos of Newsies performance on Sunday are below… Kimberly Wilder, Coordinator of Riverhead Area School Info/RASi was…

Support Our Dual Language Petition

Have you signed the petition to Save The Dual Language Program at Riverhead’s four, early elementary schools? You can find the petition at Change.org, to sign and also to share! http://www.change.org/dual_language_riverhead In addition, Kimberly has created a paper petition announcement flyer. It guides people back to our online petition. If you have friends to share…

Petition: Save The Dual Language Program

Save the Dual Language Program at Riverhead Schools from possible staff and/or program cuts in the 2024/2025 school year. Please sign our petition at Change dot org. The petition is up to 61 signatures at last count. Many of the people who signed are parents of Riverhead students and/or community leaders. https://www.change.org/dual_language_riverhead Also, to express…

Requesting input into new Superintendent at RCSD

March 18, 20204 To: Riverhead School District Board of Education, etc. Re: Idea for hiring the next, permanent, Superintendent of Schoolsfor Riverhead Central School District It’s like Versailles in there! The last few years, the Riverhead Central School District has run its administration in the same, failed way. With each opening, we have hired a…

Re-Envision Schools

Re-envision schools as enrollment dipsA Newsday guest essay by Ian Wilder While much of the recent discussion over how to fund our schools has focused on districts where enrollment is declining, some districts are being overburdened by increased enrollment. We should be discussing how to shift resources from underburdened districts to overburdened ones, to better…

“Education Valentine’s Day” for RCSD

Please come to one or all of theRiverhead Central School DistrictMarch/April school board meetings.The board needs to prepare the budget.Parents, students and other caring residentsdefinitely need to give input. Meetings are: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Tuesday, March 19th: At the Middle School, public portion starts about 7pm Tuesday, April 2nd Tuesday, April 16th If you…

Petition to Riverhead Library

Please sign our Change.org petition to help children and families who speak Spanish to better access the library. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkimberly.wilder.71%2Fposts%2Fpfbid029vx8NiPSXwBJRAcq4xaG9bKhnuqNuJjpebkFtdcaudqLMb1ZfUQFx43PnJ7h92gl&show_text=true&width=500

Celebrate Language Diversity: Tues Jan 23rd School Board Meeting

Celebrate Language Diversity: Join Riverhead RASi at the Riverhead School Board Meeting on Jan 23, 2024. Please present in English and Spanish.

Poet’s Theater about Riverhead

A Poet’s Theater piece about Riverhead School District, entitled “My Privilege”, will be performed at the PeaceSmiths Coffeeehouse in Amityville, Long Island, NY on Friday, December 1st. PeaceSmiths, founded in 1972, holds a peace and justice coffeehouse with music, poetry, and Open Mic. Come support Riverhead RASi and harmony in Riverhead schools by coming to…