By Rick Pezzullo Current and former students at the alternative high school in the Carmel School District pleaded with the Board of Education earlier this month to fund the program in the 2022-23 budget. A passionate, standing-room only crowd turned
Read MoreThe defeat of last month’s proposed budget for the Carmel Board Central School District for 2021-2022 has forced the district to come up with a new revised, scaled back budget. The final tally in the May vote was 1,125 for
Read MoreAt a public meeting last week, topping the Carmel Board of Education agenda was the revised budget after the district’s proposed budget of $133,581,366 for the 2021-2022 school year was defeated in May. Preceding the formal budget review, the board
Read MoreHere we go again. The Carmel school budget gets defeated and right away the Board of Education wants to vote on it again. Sound familiar? Once again, they disregard the vote of the people. Again, they want to tell us
Read MoreThe Carmel Board of Education has agreed to trim more than $1 million from the school budget as the district looks to place a second plan up for a vote in two weeks after its original proposal was defeated last
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Voters in Putnam County school districts approved most budgets for the 2021-22 school year and elected board of education members Tuesday but the Carmel budget went down. In Carmel, the budget was voted down 1,296-1,125. In the Board of Education race
Read MoreThe Carmel Board of Education is attempting to be proactive in keeping an open line of communication between the district and the Kent Town Board regarding a transportation facility following years of contention over a lack of dialogue. Over the
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When John Curzio was elected to the Carmel Board of Education a year after he graduated from the district, he was eager to elicit change and serve his community, but he quickly found himself inundated in controversy with his colleagues
Read MoreThe Carmel School Board recently announced that for the 2021-22 fiscal year, the district is facing a $4.7 million budget hole. As usual, the school board’s first reaction is to raise taxes instead of first trying to cut spending. Trustee Eric Mittelstadt, in an obvious attempt to appease and mollify
Read MoreFollowing a roughly three-week search, the Carmel Board of Education has chosen a new trustee to fill the vacant seat created by former trustee John Cody. Officials during their Dec. 22 meeting unanimously voted to appoint Stormville resident Jason
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