Two signs designating Levy-Lakeside School’s front baseball field as Forever 9 Field, which the Merrick-North Merrick Little League hung in April without permission from the Merrick School District, will remain up for the rest of the year, the Merrick Board of Education decided on June 4. The board also ruled that the Little League can apply in 2014 for permission to keep the signs up. more

North Merrick School District Superintendent David Feller will become president of the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents on June 1. With the position, he will also assume a spot on the Commissioner’s Advisory Council of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, which meets three to four times a year with the New York State Education Department commissioner, currently Dr. John King Jr. more

In the Merrick School District, incumbent school board Trustees Gina Piskin and Sigal Negrin, who was recently appointed to the board, ran unopposed and were re-elected. Piskin received 943 votes, and Negrin garnered 832. more

School budgets are up for a vote in Merrick, North Merrick and the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School districts on May 21. Here’s a breakdown of the budgets: more

When residents in Merrick and North Merrick go to the polls on May 21 to vote on the budgets for next school year, they will also cast ballots for Board of Education candidates in both districts. The Merrick Board of Education oversees Birch, Chatterton and Levy-Lakeside schools, and the North Merrick Board of Education oversees Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road schools. more

A handful of parents in Merrick and North Merrick told school administrators that they would refuse to allow their children to sit for new standardized state exams, which began in elementary schools around the state this week. The parents, who believe that the standardized exams lack pedagogical merit and are harmful to students, say they would like to see a grass-roots civil-disobedience movement involving other parents taking the same action that would force the state to cancel the exams. In all, 50 students did not take the exams on Tuesday, the first day they were administered, according to officials in both districts. more

The North Merrick School District was able to sidestep painful cuts to educational and counseling programs next year because of an 11th-hour restoration of state aid dollars at the end of last month. more

The North Merrick School District has drawn up a plan for how it will cut school funding if the state budget Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed in January takes effect. The plan would eliminate two classroom … more

Like many school districts across the nation, North Merrick is considering a range of measures to increase security in its three elementary schools — Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road — in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December. more

Tara Notrica, a 48-year-old Merrick mother of two, says that over the course of several years before the fall of 2010, she and her husband spent tens of thousands of dollars on private transportation to send their children from their home to elementary school and back again. more