WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. By John F. Bailey. March 30, 2004: Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connors flat-out denied a published report that the School District plans to cancel a reading program (Project Early Read) it administers for Winbrook-based students at Berkeley College Saturday mornings. Angrily swatting the front page of the Sunday Journal News Local News section, Connors told WPCNR, "This is wrong." He said he would be contacting Mack Carter, Executive Director of the White Plains Housing Authority to work out a solution to the transportation problem that he said is behind the problem.

The article conveying the impression the School District was cancelling the program was a blindside to Connors. "We run this program and we have no plans to cancel it," Connors said, and at no time did the District ever inform the Housing Authority or Berkeley College it was stopping the program. The District runs the program at a cost of $40,000. Winbrook advocate, Ron Jackson, contacted by WPCNR wondered why The Housing Authority's Thomas Slater Center couldn't host the program, rather than Berkeley College, if transportation was suddenly a problem.