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Almost half of eligible Long Beach students in grades three through eight refused to take the Common Core English Language Arts exams last week.
A total of 717 out of 1,565 enrolled students …
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By Bridget Downes
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4/6/17
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Hundreds of members of the Long Beach School Employees Association and the Classroom Teachers Association picketed outside Long Beach Middle School before the Jan. 12 Board of Education meeting, …
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By Bridget Downes
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1/19/17
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Nearly half a million students, ages 12 to 18, fell victim to violence at schools across the U.S. in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available, according to . . .
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12/2/16
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It is probably among the nation’s most thankless jobs –– Board of Education trustee. School board members spend untold hours . . .
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10/27/16
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Members of the Long Beach Schools Employees Association — encompassing all district workers aside from teachers and administrators — stormed out of the Board of Education’s Oct. 13 meeting after demanding a fair contract.
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By Ben Strack
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10/27/16
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Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time.
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10/13/16
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For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . .
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9/15/16
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At a special meeting on July 22, the board of education appointed Jeffrey Myers as the new principal of Long Beach High School.
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8/11/16
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A Nassau County Supreme Court judge granted a motion on July 26 for five parents to file a late claim against the Long Beach School District, accusing it of failing to act on complaints of abuse of their severely autistic children by their former special education teacher.
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By Ben Strack
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8/10/16
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A plan to transform an underused basketball court on the grounds of Clara H. Carlson Elementary School, in Elmont, by professional soccer team the New York Cosmos has failed to reach its funding …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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