Funeral services were held yesterday at RCC for New Hempstead’s Judith Johnson, a member of the New York State Board of Regents and former Director of Curriculum for the Nyack Public School District. She died at age 80 on Tuesday. In 2015 she addressed the controversy over the Common Core teaching standard…
Regent Johnson was the first African-American to serve as Peekskill School’s Superintendent. Donations to the Regent Dr. Judith A. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund are being accepted at www.rocklandgives.org.