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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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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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Three seats are up for grabs in this year’s race for the North Merrick Board of Education. Two seats are being vacated by longtime Trustees George Haile and Linda Fuller. In the races for the open seats, Lissa Zukoff and John Pinto are going head to head, Jennifer Hyland is opposing Lori Spilabotte, and incumbent Wendy Gargiulo is being challenged by Paul Leavin.
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5/12/16
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Jennifer Hyland has a master’s degree in telecommunications and information management from New York University’s Polytechnic School of Engineering (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering). She …
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By Stephany Reyes
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5/11/16
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For 40 years, the Family Project has been aiding children with developmental disabilities and their families from throughout Bellmore-Merrick. In celebration of the group’s fourth decade, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District honored its founder and coordinator, Steve Rose, at the March 2 Board of Education meeting.
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3/10/16
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In the past, only Advanced Placement English students in the Bellmore-Merrick Central School District took the English Regents in January of 11th grade. The feeling was that they should be ready at that point to pass the exam with a high mark, giving them greater time to concentrate on the A.P. exam in May.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/15/16
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In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent.
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1/21/16
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The Massachusetts State Board of Education recently rejected the battery of state exams required by the Common Core curriculum. It was a bold –– and pathetic –– move on the board’s part.
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12/3/15
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Air-conditioning –– or the lack of it –– became a heated topic at the Merrick School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
The lack of air-conditioning in classrooms at Birch, Chatterton and Levy-Lakeside elementary schools has been discussed for several years, more so when temperatures hit the mid-to high-80s during the first week of school, as well as in June, when school is ending.
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By Stephany Reyes
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9/17/15
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education kicked off the 2015-16 school year on July 14 by electing Skip Haile as president and Janet Goller as vice president.
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7/27/15
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