While the game was more competitive than the score implies, Sewanhaka earned a sizeable boys’ basketball victory over visiting Elmont last Saturday, 72-46, thanks to a steady offense that …
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By Jamie deJong
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1/10/22
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Coming off a Nassau Class AA boys’ basketball championship in the 2019-2020 campaign, Baldwin played just four games last winter after it was forced to quarantine following a Covid outbreak on …
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1/5/22
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The war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections.
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By Alan Singer
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12/23/21
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In recent months, we have seen a growing number of parents crowding school board meetings across Long Island, protesting the state mandate requiring students to mask up in schools.
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12/2/21
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I recently joined five Long Island high school students for a visit to the Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd Harbor, the 18th-century site where many enslaved people of African descent lived.
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By Elaine Gross
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11/18/21
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You cannot burn a book in 2021. You can burn the paper and the ink and the cardboard, but in our world of e-books, you cannot ever kill the words and ideas that an author created.
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11/18/21
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Elmont schools plan to expand the districtwide ‘Fundations’ curriculum, a program designed to bolster the reading skills of students, to include second grade students during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a statement released by the Elmont Union Free School District.
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By Robert Traverso
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11/4/21
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The Franklin Square Historical Society is set to open the doors to its new museum to the public, displaying, among many artifacts, a chandelier that once illuminated the auditorium at Monroe Street School during the 20th century.
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By Robert Traverso
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11/4/21
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Dutch Broadway School in Elmont has been named a 2020-2022 School of Excellence by the National Parent Teacher Association.
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By Robert Traverso
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10/28/21
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The mental health of a majority of high school and college students across the country has been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a number of surveys of students conducted since the health crisis began over 18 months ago.
Elmont schools responded by adding three new school counselors for the 2021-22 school year.
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By Robert Traverso
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10/28/21
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