James Scannell, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and a former school board trustee, has been named the next superintendent of Baldwin schools. The announcement was made …
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By Chris Connolly
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4/11/13
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You’ve probably been reading a lot lately about your local school district’s proposed budget for next year.
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4/4/13
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and many state legislators, view 2011’s tax cap law as one of the crowning achievements of this administration.
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3/28/13
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In 2011, the median property tax bill in Nassau County was $8,478, putting Nassau a close second to Westchester County for the highest property taxes in the country.
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10/24/12
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On behalf of district administration and staff, I look forward to welcoming our students back for the 2012-2013 school year. The custodians have worked hard to make sure the schools are warm and inviting places to learn and teach, and we are ready and eagerly awaiting the arrival of students on the first day of school, Sept. 4.
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Superintendent Dr. James Mapes
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8/8/12
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“It is not hard to figure out that you are being discriminated against when your supervisor calls you a nigger and routinely reminds you that you are a black woman.” So opens the …
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By Lee Landor
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12/12/11
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If you live in Malverne, you know Paul Jessup. He has lived in the village since 1957, spending some 30 years as a member of the volunteer Fire Department and the last 14 as the superintendent of the …
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Lee Landor
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10/12/11
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Depending on your point of view, Governor Cuomo’s proposed superintendent salary cap is either a good start on the road to reining in exorbitant taxes across New York state or, at best, a symbolic gesture.
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3/10/11
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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending.
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Judy Rattner
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3/9/11
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Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it.
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12/16/10
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