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There is little doubt that my wife and I overpaid for our home. When we were looking for a house to buy a decade ago, we had one search criterion in mind –– the schools had to be excellent. Period.
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6/7/12
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Last week, the federal government granted New York a waiver to provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act that will allow it to set new standards for students and not be held to the 2014 deadline of …
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By Alex Costello
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6/6/12
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By Chris Connolly
cconnolly@liherald
Baldwin has been named a Best Community for Music Education by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation.
NAMM is a nonprofit …
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By Chris Connolly
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5/16/12
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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.
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4/26/12
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The Baldwin Foundation for Education’s recognition of Robert “B.A.” Schoen, held last Saturday at the high school, opened with a joke, and then the speakers kept right on cracking wise. “I was walking all around looking for B.A. before this thing started and I couldn’t find him,” Stephen Witt, president of the Nassau BOCES board on which Schoen serves, quipped to a crowd that included Schoen. “I didn’t realize he was capable of looking so sharp. He’s usually wearing red plaid pants or something. I didn’t recognize him.”
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Chris Connolly
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4/10/12
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I love that Apple Chairman Steve Jobs said that one of the most important classes he took at Reed College in Oregon, from which he dropped out in 1972, was calligraphy.
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3/29/12
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It’s that time of year again. High school seniors are eagerly awaiting thick packets with letters of acceptance from the colleges and universities of their dreams.
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3/22/12
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As part of the Council of Education Travel, students from European and Asian countries will be coming to Long Island to stay with host families and spend the 2012-2013 school year as foreign exchange …
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3/7/12
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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.
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Chris Connolly
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2/1/12
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The 2012 Long Island Innovation Index is chock full of useful information. The index, created by the Rauch Foundation, is an annual report that takes stock of how things are on the Island and makes recommendations for the future.
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1/26/12
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