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Oysterponds school board to reinstate first-grade teacher

KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | In a 2010 photo, Oysterponds teacher Jenny Schoenstein helps a kindergartner with a writing exercise. Her name is listed with other teachers expected to be laid off June 30.
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | In a 2010 photo, Oysterponds teacher Jenny Schoenstein helps a student with a writing exercise. The school board is expected to vote on her reinstatement Tuesday night.

The Oysterponds school board is expected to vote Tuesday night on reinstating first-grade teacher Jenny Schoenstein — one of four teachers laid off in June.

The position opened back up as part of a new teacher’s contract approved last month. The new two-year agreement came nearly a year after the last one expired.

In June, the school board voted to lay off Ms. Schoenstein, second-grade teacher Rebecca Cartselos, fifth-grade teacher Brittany Knote and Kathy Syron, the district’s first pre-kindergarten teacher.

The school board is also expected to vote on Ms. Knote’s appointment as a full-time technology teacher assistant, according to Tuesday’s agenda.

In addition, the school board will discuss renewing an agreement with the Greenport School District to allow Oysterponds sixth-grade students to attend technology and home and career courses at Greenport during the 2013-14 school year.

Oysterponds is a pre-K through sixth-grade district serving the Orient and East Marion communities and sends its secondary students to Greenport.

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Oysterponds school board meeting agenda, Aug. 20, 2013