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The New York State Department of Education recently released highly anticipated teacher rating statistics for the 2012-13 school year for districts across the state. Teachers are evaluated according to local measures and students’ performance on state-mandated exams. Ratings include “highly effective,” “effective,” “developing” and “ineffective.” more

9/4/14

Caryn Blum, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s assistant superintendent for instruction, said that this year’s seventh- and eighth-grade state English Language Arts and math exams were ‘not indicative of student performance at all.’

Bellmore-Merrick Central District officials lambast state exams

Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials spent recent weeks poring over reams of state English Language Arts and math test data for the seventh and eighth grades, looking for patterns in student performance, according to Caryn Blum, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and a former Merrick Avenue Middle School principal. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/28/13

David Feller, North Merrick superintendent

North Merrick schools chief to lead Nassau superintendents, advise state

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

By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com | 5/31/13

Less than 95 percent of students at Merrick Avenue and Grand Avenue middle schools took new math tests that the state launched last month — a threshold that schools must meet for them to have made “Adequate Yearly Progress,” according to the New York State Education Department.

Testing ‘opt-outs’ create quandaries for schools

Two weeks ago, the Herald detailed new English and math standardized tests that New York’s public and charter schools gave to students in grades three to eight last month. In this report, the Herald continues an examination of how “opting out” from the tests could affect the students who did so and their schools. more

By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com | 5/30/13

Merrick-Bellmore test scores beat averages

In the four Bellmore-Merrick elementary districts, every grade from third to sixth surpassed the average county and state scores on the English Language Arts and math state exams, the results of which were released by the New York State Department of Education last week. School superintendents expressed satisfaction with the results, but also cautioned that their districts will need to continue to work hard to prepare students for future statewide exams, which since 2010 have included longer, more difficult problems. more

By David Weingrad | 7/26/12

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