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Lynbrook High School English teacher Carla Gentile spoke out against the district’s Do No Harm policy.
Lynbrook teachers: Do No Harm policy hurts students
At the June 13 Lynbrook Board of Education meeting, several students and teachers expressed their displeasure with a district policy that omits students’ Regents exam grades from their class averages if the scores do not help them. more
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The East Rockaway unified basketball team faced a squad from Long Beach on May 2 at East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School.
East Rockaway's unified basketball team inspires students
East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School’s unified basketball team continues to inspire players with and without intellectual disabilities. more
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The Lakeview Fire Department and Nassau County EMS workers teamed up to rescue people trapped in the bus.
Residents, state officials react in aftermath of Southern State bus crash in Lakeview
South Shore elected leaders are calling on the state to upgrade safety measures on Long Island parkways after a charter bus carrying students from Kennedy Airport to Suffolk County recently crashed into the Eagle Avenue bridge in Lakeview, nearly shearing off the bus’s roof and injuring three dozen students and chaperones, six of them seriously. more
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Paul Lynch, left, Lynbrook’s assistant superintendent of finance, operations and information systems, presented the district’s smart bond proposal in December 2016. Superintendent Dr. Melissa Burak, second from left, wrote a letter to the State Education Department last month after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., because the nearly $893,000 plan — which focuses on school safety initiatives — has yet to be approved.
Lynbrook school officials awaiting funds for safety initiatives
With educators across the country evaluating safety procedures after the recent mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., Lynbrook School District officials sent a letter to the State Education Department seeking to expedite hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding that the district should have been awarded last spring for security initiatives — but was not. more
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The New York State High School Football Coaches Association named Dan Vito, right, the New York State Assistant Football Coach of the Year for his work with the East Rockaway varsity football team. Above, Vito with Rocks head coach Russ Pajer at a special ceremony on Feb. 9.
East Rockaway alum named NYS Assistant Coach of the Year
Dan Vito credits his uncle, Joe Vito, for inspiring him to become a football coach when he played under him as an 8-year-old on the East Rockaway Raiders, and again in high school. more
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Lynbrook High School is one out of 155 schools statewide to be recognized as a Reward School by the New York State Education Department.
Lynbrook High School earns Reward School recognition
Lynbrook High School was recently recognized as a Reward School by the New York State Education Department for its continued high academic performance among students. more
Matilda Cuomo, front, third from right, visited East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School on Dec. 13 to speak with participants in the school’s new mentor program.
New York State Mentoring Program expands to East Rockaway
As the First Lady of New York in 1983, Matilda Cuomo wanted to create a state program in which children facing hardships are paired with a mentor who would support them. But before her husband, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, implemented the program, Matilda wanted to test out the idea herself as a mentor to a girl, Ellie Delgado, who had anger problems and was considering dropping out of school to return to Puerto Rico where she would get a job as a prostitute. more
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FBI agents combed through the woods between Merrick and Freeport, apparently in search of a body.
Police, FBI investigate human remains found in Freeport-Merrick woods
Authorities reportedly discovered human remains in the woods between Freeport and Merrick on Saturday morning. more
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The Long Island Association, in conjunction with Stony Brook University's Advanced Energy Research Center, the Gershow Recycling Corporation and Deepwater Wind, hosted a tour last Wednesday of the wind farm recently constructed three miles off the Block Island coastline. At center, in yellow, was LIA Board of Directors member Katherine Heaviside.
The future is blowing in the wind
New York officials say they hope to generate half of the state’s power from renewable sources by 2030. To meet this goal, officials are looking to the recently constructed Block Island offshore wind farm as a model for how renewable energy can power whole communities. more
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State must address Regents exam flaws
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 . . . more
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