Pascack Valley Regional High School District

• Laptops Replace Texbooks at School

The one-to-one laptop program at the Pascack Valley Regional High School District has garnered national attention recently for the way it has changed how students learn and instructors teach. Textbooks are rarely used; instead, students supplement lectures with Internet research. Music students receive immediate feedback on the computer if they miss a note. And classes use videoconferencing to connect with peers around the country -- in Arizona, for example - - or in other nations, such as Italy.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• June 13, 2011

• Pascack Valley Regional High School District Selects ScanSoft PDF Create! as Standard PDF Solution for Educators.

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• Business Wire
• October 12, 2004

• School Budget Hearings Slated

The regional district includes 2,112 students from Hillsdale, Woodcliff Lake, Montvale and River Vale. Spending could increase more than $1.4 million, or more than 3 percent, and the levy could increase $703,882, or about 1.73 percent. MONTVALE -- It will cost about $112 million to educate the 6,631 students in four towns that send pupils to the Pascack Valley Regional High School District.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 29, 2011

• Ballot Will Test Interest in Dissolving District

Montvale and Woodcliff Lake voters will decide Tuesday whether they want their representatives to create a new pre-K through 12th- grade district for both towns. The outcome of the ballot question could lead to the eventual dissolution of the 54-year-old Pascack Valley Regional High School District -- which educates students in ninth through 12th grades from Hillsdale, River Vale, Montvale and Woodcliff Lake.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• November 26, 2009

• Regional District Picks Chief

MONTVALE -- Erik Gundersen, the Pascack Valley Regional High School District director of curriculum, will be the new superintendent, the school board announced Wednesday. The board will appoint Gundersen in May and he will take over the position July 1. His salary has not been finalized, school officials said.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 31, 2011

• Digitally Distracted

Josh Walker has access to a laptop 24-7 as part of the Pascack Valley Regional High School district's one-to-one laptop program. The pluses are that you get to have all your notes in one place - - on your computer -- where you can access them," the 16-year-old said. "You can Google basically anything -- and that's also one of the disadvantages. It could distract you from doing your homework.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• June 11, 2010

• Tax Issue Stirs Passions

Turnout more suited for a presidential election rather than a schools referendum Tuesday night suggested that an overwhelming number of voters in Pascack Valley aren't shy when the ballot question hits close to home -- or, in this case, their pocketbook. The referendum voted on Tuesday would have shifted the tax burden for the Pascack Valley Regional High School District significantly onto the shoulders of Hillsdale and River Vale, who voted overwhelmingly against it, and granted tax relief to residents of Montvale and Woodcliff Lake, who voted overwhelmingly for it.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• October 07, 2010

• Pascack Valley May Tweak Funding ; District Members Seek Referendum

WOODCLIFF LAKE -- Municipal and school officials want voters to be polled on changing the funding formula for the regional district's high school. The Borough Council and local school board approved identical resolutions this month asking the Pascack Valley Regional High School District Board of Education to conduct the referendum "as soon as practicable.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 29, 2010

• Pascack Valley Ballot Question Over Funding Still a Sore Spot

Ask a town official in River Vale whether a Sept. 28 referendum to change the funding formula for the Pascack Valley Regional High School District has any chance of passage and the answer, almost uniformly, is no. Not a chance. Never. River Vale Mayor Joe Blundo, in fact, said that he was already preparing to send an invoice to Woodcliff Lake and Montvale to pay for the cost (around $20,000) of the vote to his township, which he said was a waste of resources.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• September 21, 2010

• Pascack Schools to Get $1m for Repairs

MONTVALE -- The Pascack Valley Regional High School District will receive about $1 million from the state Schools Development Authority for repairs and renovations at its two high schools, the authority announced Tuesday. The district will receive $993,373 to repair the roof and replace windows in the C-wing of Pascack Hills High School, and build a science lab within existing classrooms at Pascack Valley High School, which will also receive renovations to the life-skills classroom, upgrades to an elevator and separation of the dance and fitness rooms.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• May 11, 2011