News – The Irvington Voice

Irvington Opens First Wellness Center

Assistant Principal Honerkamp (pictured above) delivers a speech at the Grand Open-
ing of Irvington’s first Wellness Center.

Shradha Krishnamurthy, Entertainment Editor

February 7, 2020

On Jan. 28 during Lunch, Irvington High School officially opened the district’s first-ever Wellness Center. Housed in room 49, the center replaces the preexisting Responsibility Center (RC) and signals a turning point in the way that Irvington handles mental health and disciplinary action. The grand ...

New Faces: Dual Immersion Schools

Dual Immersion students are exposed to a foreign language at a young age and gradually build up their biliteracy as they grow older.

Felicia Mo, Staff Writer

May 25, 2019

In the Spring of 2018, the first year of Spanish Dual Immersion students graduated from Hopkins Junior High School’s Dual Immersion program, some of whom went on to attend Irvington High School in the 2018-2019 school year. The Dual Immersion program fosters bilingualism and puts emphasis on a specific...

Summer Geometry Shut Down

Students who were not able to take the summer geometry program enrolled in the more rigorous accelerated compaction course to finish precalculus by the end of sophomore year.

Felicia Mo, Staff Writer

April 25, 2019

During the monthly district board meeting on Mar. 27 2019, the FUSD Board of Education decided to discontinue the accelerated geometry summer school course, a math acceleration program offered to incoming high school freshmen. According to the Board of Education, the course did not meet summer school poli...