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Over the past few years, the state and federal governments have made it a priority to improve school students’ physical well-being. more
The two social workers had been counseling drug addicts on how to stay clean. Then, on July 5, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano slashed funding for drug-treatment and youth services, and suddenly they were without jobs. One is the mother of three children, all under age 12, whose husband is unemployed. The other is a single woman who had recently taken out a mortgage to buy a fixer-upper home. more
Last year I described former Merokean Jessica Sussman’s plans to travel to Cameroon, where she would use her expertise as a social worker to help in AIDS prevention. She has now returned— and in the two-part series that begins with this column, she details her experiences in Africa. more
As a part of an ongoing tradition, members of the Lawrence Teachers Association, staff and student volunteers distributed full turkey dinners to needy district families three days before Christmas. more
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