At a Board of Education meeting on Oct. 18, Bob Fenter, Oceanside’s assistant superintendent for curriculum, outlined some of the changes that are coming to the district’s curriculum in the next …
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Alex Costello
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10/26/11
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In a move celebrated by state school officials, a law was passed over the summer to help school districts cut bus costs and put those savings toward school programs, and local districts have just recently been able to take advantage of it.
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By Jackie Nash
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10/25/11
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The Island Park School District will expand its partnership with the Long Beach School District this year, sharing transportation services — a move, school officials say, that will save both …
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Chris Engelhardt
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9/28/11
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West Hempstead school district administrators held their first “A Conversation with District Administration” meeting last week with other administrators, faculty, parents and community …
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9/7/11
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For West Hempstead school district officials, it’s not nature versus nurture, it’s nature plus nurture.
Starting in mid-September, the administration will launch its Green Team …
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By Lee Landor
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8/31/11
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Since elementary school, lifelong New Hyde Park resident Linda Opyr, 58, has been devoted to poetry, and that dedication recently paid off. On June 12, Opyr was named poet laureate of Nassau …
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By James Fitz Gerald
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7/13/11
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This past June, in addition to the sizable number of students who graduated from the Oceanside and Island Park school districts, three principals moved on from their positions: Rhonda Gelbwasser from …
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Tom Steinert
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7/6/11
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This year, the Oceanside School District said goodbye to many of its teachers and staff, who took more than 1,100 years of combined experience in the district with them. At a special Board of …
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7/6/11
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On June 24, New York State lawmakers passed a property tax cap bill that could place extra financial burdens on local school districts and villages.
The tax cap — the first in New York history …
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Tom Steinert
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6/29/11
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Seventh-grade sports might have to be eliminated. The nine-period day might be reduced to eight. And teachers might have to be let go. After that, no one’s sure what might happen, but school districts will have to keep cutting.
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Scott Brinton
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6/2/11
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