Dr. Shelley Einbinder, the new principal of the Edgartown School, is determined to know the name of every student and family at the school.

Town and school leaders took constructive steps this week to address the problems at the Tisbury School, authorizing the use of emergency funds to cover immediate needs.

The regional high school was one of 16 schools in the commonwealth to be recognized as a 2019 National Banner School for their unified sports program, coach Ryan Kent told the high school committee this week.

Edgartown officials doubled down on their criticism of proposed changes to the high school funding mechanism Monday.

Tisbury students had their belated first day of school Monday, with students in grades five through eight going to the regional high school and K through fourth staying in the newer wing of the town school.

An dispute among Island towns over how the regional high school is funded came to a head this week as administrators sought to move forward on plans to renovate or replace the campus.