Let the tour begin. Monday marked the first of a slew of budget presentations with PTA units and other community-related groups and organizations. Discussions are led by East Meadow …
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Mike Caputo
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4/15/10
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The East Meadow Board of Education unanimously adopted the school district's proposed budget on Thursday night.
The proposal for next year's budget calls for an increase of 1.71 percent in …
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Mike Caputo
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4/8/10
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The East Meadow School District has agreed on new contracts with the unions that represent teachers and school administrators. An announcement was made at the Board of Education’s …
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Mike Caputo
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3/31/10
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The East Meadow School District has reached a "memorandum of understanding" on a new contract with both the teacher and administrative unions.
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Mike Caputo
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3/25/10
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A resident physician at Stony Brook University Medical School recently got herself into trouble by posting an old photo of a former classmate giving two thumbs up next to a cadaver on Facebook.
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2/11/10
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In one early visit to the U.S., Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest scientist in history, was subjected to a very public pop quiz devised by none other than American inventor Thomas Edison, according to author Walter Isaacson in “Einstein: His Life and Universe.”
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1/29/10
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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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Al D'Amato
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1/29/10
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As we batted around ideas for this week’s editorial, we agreed that a new take on an old idea — New Year’s resolutions — was in order. Rather than offer our own ideas, we decided, we’d ask the experts.
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12/24/09
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The East Meadow Board of Education will meet twice in December. A work meeting will be held on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. A Communications meeting will be held on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Before …
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12/3/09
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Following the Terrific Kids awards presentations on Nov. 19, most of the audience dispersed before the start of the East Meadow Board of Education’s monthly Communications Meeting at the Leon …
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Mike Caputo
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11/25/09
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