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The Baldwin Board of Education held a special meeting on April 8 to discuss new developments in the budget planning process. Superintendent James Scannell, center, unveiled a new spending plan that stays within the district’s tax levy cap.

On the same day the baseball season kicked off for most big league clubs, state lawmakers threw a curveball of their own to school administrators and boards of education preparing to pierce the property tax levy cap. more

By Brian Croce | 4/16/14

Baldwin BOE to hold special meeting Tuesday

The Baldwin Board of Education will hold a special meeting on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the district office to discuss the potential impact of the recently passed state budget on the district’s proposed 2014-15 budget. more

4/7/14

Get involved in school budgeting

The average homeowner in Nassau County typically spends 60 to 65 percent of his or her local taxes on schools. Don’t you want to know how your money is being spent? more

3/27/14

Education Law

Q: We planned on buying a home in a particular school district, but the sale fell through and we are still in our old home. Our children have already started school in … more

By Lynn M. Brown | 11/11/13

Deborah Rebore, right, was sworn in as a school board Trustee by District Clerk Mary Hobbs.

New faces, new positions of Board

The main order of business at last week’s Baldwin Board of Education meeting was the swearing in of new Trustees Deborah Rebore and Joel Press more

7/10/13

Malaya, 13, and Elina, 11, get ready to board the bus to Albany with their dad, school board Trustee-elect, Joel Press, on Saturday.

Joel Press, Board of Ed Trustee-elect, writes from rally

My name is Joel Press and I am one of your newly elected members of Baldwin’s Board of Education. This past Saturday I hopped on a bus with my wife and two school-age children to join thousands of … more

6/12/13

School board: a way to give back

You’ve probably been reading a lot lately about your local school district’s proposed budget for next year. more

4/4/13

Get involved in your school election now

Last June, Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature enacted a 2 percent property-tax-levy cap, limiting the increase in property taxes that a school district can collect to meet expenses — and limiting its ability to add programming to improve student performance. more

4/26/12

Following a rally outside Baldwin Middle School last week, red-clad residents made their feelings known at the Board of Education’s Community Input Meeting.

School(s) out?

The Baldwin Board of Education held its Community Input Meeting in the auditorium at the Middle School on Jan. 25. The gathering featured a long-awaited report from the district’s Facilities Review Task Force and an opportunity for residents to express their feelings to the board. The board’s role at input meetings is to take the temperature of the community, and after the task force recommended closing two schools, that temperature was decidedly frosty. more

Chris Connolly | 2/1/12

Parents like Jennifer Clavin, speaking, and Lori Murray, to Clavin’s right, have spent many hours of their own time researching ways to reallocate district funds.

BOE addresses FAQs

With budget gaps, school closings and reworked busing routes in the air, Baldwin Board of Education meetings are no longer genial hour-long affairs. Terms like “tax certiorari,” “EBALR” and “unassigned fund balances” have wormed their way into the public lexicon, and the same questions seem to be raised at meeting after meeting. more

Chris Connolly | 1/18/12

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