By Jaime Thomas Though Hurricane Sandy didn’t hit Granville physically, it may still hurt the school district. Mark Bessen told Board of Education members how the storm might make things difficult for them in the next fiscal year at a meeting Monday night. “The state’s going to be focusing a lot of attention on repairing [...]
Schools failing top students: Board hears grim Regents results
Failure rates on Regents tests, including some of those for Granville High School’s top-level students, have increased steadily and in some cases, dramatically. Principal James Donnelly is searching for answers and said the school is already putting a response in place. “We have an awful lot of work to do in the math department,” said [...]
School board faces change, challenges
By Bill Toscano For schools and boards of education, the new year didn’t start in January, but rather on July 1. In Granville, that meant a new principal at Granville Elementary School, a veteran principal moving from GES to Mary J. Tanner, a new director of special education and two new Board of Education [...]





