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On June 16, the New York State Board of Regents issued a dryly worded “Notice to Teachers” regarding this year’s geometry Regents exam. It read . . .
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7/27/17
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Ten years ago, Howard T. Herber Middle School teacher Marguerite Izzo found herself in the office of U.S. Sen. Carolyn McCarthy and began recounting her observations stemming from the No Child Left Behind Act. As she was talking, McCarthy yelled for an aide to grab a notebook and start writing. “I couldn’t believe someone cared,” said Izzo, adding that this was the beginning of legislation to involve teachers in writing federal education policy. “The legislation was introduced two or three times, but never got off the ground,” Izzo said.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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7/27/17
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Nearly 95,000 Long Island children in grades three through eight — roughly 52 percent of the total — did not take the New York state standardized English Language Arts exam last week, as the “opt-out” movement continued . . .
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4/6/17
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After a two-year impasse, the Long Beach Board of Education and the Classroom Teachers Association announced last week that they had agreed on a new contract.
At the March 9 school board meeting …
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By Bridget Downes
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3/16/17
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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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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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Three months after the Long Beach School District launched a disciplinary hearing for former middle school special education teacher Lisa Weitzman that could lead to her dismissal, the proceeding continued at Lindell Elementary School last week, and new testimony from witnesses sparked a charged debate between two lawyers.
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By Ben Strack
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6/15/16
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With Long Beach’s school board election set for May 17, Board of Education President Roy Lester and high school science teacher Perry Bodnar are slated to discuss their respective platforms at a candidates forum on May 9 at City Hall. The forum, organized by the Central Council PTA, will begin at 7 p.m.
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By Ben Strack
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5/5/16
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Three weeks after the parents of five developmentally disabled students submitted a petition to sue the Long Beach school district for $25 million in Nassau County Supreme Court for allegedly failing to act on complaints of teacher abuse, the family of another child who attended class in what witnesses have called “the torture room” filed a $10 million federal lawsuit Thursday.
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By Ben Strack
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4/22/16
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An attorney representing parents of five disabled Long Beach students said they plan to sue the school district for $25 million, claiming that officials failed to act on complaints of abuse of the children by their former special education teacher that allegedly took place over seven years.
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By Ben Strack
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4/8/16
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