On Tuesday, January 23, attendance at the Board of Education’s routine meeting far surpassed the usual amount. Every chair was filled, people sat on the…
Posts published in “News”
The Board of Education’s Response to Vaccination Controversy
Families with unvaccinated children received letters of notice from ICSD stating that they had thirty days to provide adequate explanations of vaccination exemption, and that…
Making Life Multi-Planetary: An Update
Founder and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk continues to develop and invest in his many projects around the globe, including Tesla and SolarCity. However, he…
Republicans’ Tax Plan May Cost US $2.2 Trillion
On November 16, the House of Representatives passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, set to enact $1.5 trillion in tax cuts. The bill was…
Update from Reps to the Board: Music to Become Part of GPA
Over the past year, the students of IHS, led by the Student Council, have been working tirelessly to incorporate music classes into GPA. After considering…
Dr. Brown Uses Twitter to Give Voice to IHS Students
On October 18, 2017, ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown announced that every Friday, he will be turning his Twitter account over to one student in the…
GrammaTech Awarded $9 Million Cybersecurity Grant by US Government
In October, Ithaca company GrammaTech received a $9 million grant from the U.S. Government’s Office of Naval Research for research and development (R&D) on cybersecurity…
Tom Reed Holds Town Hall at Romulus Central School
On Saturday, October 14, Congressman Tom Reed held a town hall meeting in Romulus, part of a three-day bus tour to meet with constituents in…
Representatives to the Board of Education
Student government at IHS can sometimes be very confusing. Students might ask: “I want better quality toilet paper. Who do I talk to?” or “The…
Local Elections on November 7
On November 7, New York State voters will head to the polls to make important decisions about local and state politics. All seats in the…
Fresh Food Comes to IHS
School lunches are notorious for providing students with foods high in carbs and sugar, but a person cannot survive on Uncrustables and Pop-Tarts. The issue…
Club Funding at IHS
With approximately 50 different clubs for everything from K-pop to magic to tiddlywinks, IHS offers one of the most comprehensive student activities programs in the…
Decarcerate Tompkins County Stops Local Jail Expansion
Decarcerate Tompkins won a major victory in Ithaca when the Center for Governmental Research (CGR) decided this past July that it did not need to…
The Status of Chromebook Privacy
The world has entered the digital age, an era in which technology is everything. Representative of this paradigm shift is IHS’s transition to Chromebook usage.…
An Overview of the 2017–18 ICSD Budget
On May 17, 2017, all residents of Tompkins County had the chance to vote in the elections for their respective school districts. Candidates for the…
TSA Succeeds at National Conference
On June 20, seventeen members of IHS’s Technology Student Association (TSA) traveled to Orlando, Florida to compete at the national conference. This conference—which involved almost…
Democratic Congressional Primary Race Gets an Early Start
Tom Reed, the US Representative for New York’s 23rd Congressional District which encompasses Ithaca, has won by comfortable margins in multiple elections in a row.…
Cornell Receives $2.5 Million for Cybersecurity
Even when the primary means of digital communication was email, parents warned, “Don’t click on any emails that look suspicious,” fearing the harm that could…
IHS Students Attend D.C. Climate March
On April 29, 2017, the IHS Green Team and a few volunteers, myself included, trekked down to Washington, D.C. to lend our voices and signs…
A Further Look Into Ithaca’s Sanctuary City Status
Last February, Ithaca’s City Council unanimously voted to make Ithaca a sanctuary city, a popular move in a community so supportive of immigrants. This…
ICSD Creates Mobile App
When ICSD launched its new mobile app, I decided to download this recent effort by ICSD to explore a new medium to interact with the…
For the past decade, the Ithaca Board of Education has been pursuing a specific goal regarding equity: to “eliminate class and race as predictors of…
An Update on Teacher Evaluations
Every year, teachers are evaluated two or three times on their lesson preparation, classroom environment, quality of instruction, and fulfillment of professional responsibilities. New York…
A Clarification of ICSD Internet Policy
Ever since students were given free Chromebooks at the start of the 2015–16 school year, there have been questions regarding new practices, such as what…
IHS students who take music classes work for hours a week, practicing and participating in extracurricular activities that directly involve musical skills. Many spend free…
Upcoming STEM Exhibition Planned to Have More Extreme STEM for High Schoolers
Recently, several teachers and an IPEI member have been planning a STEM fair to take place at IHS after school on May 15. The fair…
IHS Teacher Proves Riemann Hypothesis
In a sudden revelation, a serendipitous brainchild of fate, a disciplinary intersection of theory and application, what will henceforth be known as “the tossup that…