Nassau BOCES installed former East Meadow School District Superintendent Dr. Robert Dillon as its new district superintendent at a board meeting on Aug. 20.
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By David Weingrad
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8/27/15
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More than 200,000 New York students “opted out” of the grades three-through-eight Common Core English and math exams this spring.
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8/19/15
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Melanie Emmons believes public education of parking regulations and enforcement go hand in hand. And that belief propelled the Baldwin resident toward a citation from Nassau County Executive Ed …
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8/13/15
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Q: Are my child's private Facebook postings truly confidential?
A: Maybe not. It has long been the law that schools can look at and use social media postings done outside …
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By Lynn M. Brown
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7/22/15
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I want to enumerate the many reasons I’m so against making test scores count for 50 percent of the ratings.
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6/24/15
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Q: My school district in Nassau County, where my special needs child attends school, wants to move him to a different type of classroom situation that I think is inappropriate. Can I keep him …
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By: Lynn M. Brown
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5/28/15
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The last few years have been demanding, to say the least, for the Baldwin Board of Education and administration — a transportation referendum that didn’t realize the savings it promised, the closing of two elementary schools, budget cuts and three different superintendents at the helm.
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5/14/15
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To learn more about bladder cancer, the public is invited to attend a free educational program, Bladder Cancer Awareness Day, at Winthrop-University Hospital on May 9, from 9 a.m. to noon. It will be held in the Winthrop Research and Academic Center, 101 Mineola Blvd., Mineola.
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5/7/15
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Two Board of Education seats are up for a vote this year and four community members are looking to win one of them. Incumbents Eric Harrison and Mary Jo’ Hagan are seeking re-election while Annie …
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5/6/15
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears locked in a political death spiral. Last year brought growing dissatisfaction with the State Education Department’s dysfunctional implementation of the new Common Core State Standards . . .
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4/30/15
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