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Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spoke of the looming state budget deficit during a question-and-answer session with Herald editors on March 4.

Skelos: Don't miss chance to trim spending

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending. more

Judy Rattner | 3/9/11

Valley Stream superintendent searches need you

When school starts next September, two of Valley Stream’s four school districts will be under new leadership. And in the coming weeks and months, Valley Stream residents will have a great opportunity to have a say on just who these new leaders should be. more

1/5/11

Merrick superintendent Melucci sets the record straight

Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it. more

| 12/16/10

Once the district receives the insurance pay out, it will purchase new buses.

Bus blaze was arson: fire marshal

The cause of the fire that destroyed Malverne school district's three new school buses was arson, Nassau County Fire Marshals determined on Tuesday. "This was very much directed at those buses," … more

Lee Landor | 11/10/10

An early-morning fire destroyed three buses recently purchased by the Malverne school district. Nearby portable classrooms sustained heavy exterior damage.

Blaze destroys brand-new school buses

The Malverne school district lost three new school buses and use of its portable classrooms last Sunday morning after a fire broke out and engulfed the recently purchased buses more

Lee Landor | 11/8/10

Teachers from the Hicksville School District turned out in force to protest the proposed elimination of the county guarantee that it will pay for property-tax challenges, saying the plan would mean higher property taxes and reduced services for the schools.

Vote on county property-tax plan to take place by Oct. 29

The Nassau Legislature's hearing on its 2011 budget became heated on Monday over a proposal to nix the county's longstanding guarantee to pay for property owners' challenges to its tax assessments. If passed, the plan would effectively shift that burden to school districts and towns. more

David Weingrad and Scott Brinton | 10/18/10

Protesters lobby against property-tax plan

Dozens of protesters from throughout Nassau County converged on the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Monday morning to see whether the county Legislature would vote on a proposal to nix the county’s guarantee that it will pay for challenges to property owners’ assessments. more

David Weingrad | 10/18/10

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