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Butch Yamali, president of the Merrick School District Board of Education, left, listened as Dr. Dominick Palma, district superintendent, spoke at a board meeting this school year.
Merrick to vote on schools budget
The district would add one English as a new language teacher, who would rotate between Birch, Chatterton and Levy-Lakeside, and two special education teachers, who would work at Birch and Levy-Lakeside. more
Parents and teachers took part in a rally against New York educational policies on March 27 in front of Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick.
Parents throw brake on state tests
Last week more than a thousand third- to eighth-grade students in the Merricks did not take state English Language Arts tests. more
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Marla Kilfoyle, a leader of the activist organization Badass Teachers Association, spoke at a forum on state education policies on March 31 at Brookside School in North Merrick.
Parents, educators decry testing at forum
On March 31, a crowd of roughly 150 people, mostly parents and teachers in Bellmore and Merrick, packed the auditorium at Brookside School in North Merrick for a forum on the state’s education policies. more
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NICHOLAS MOEHRINGER
Calhoun researcher to be published
Calhoun High School senior Nicholas Moehringer of Merrick, 17, has been selected to have his research into sideline concussion tests for athletes published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Euro-Ophthalmology. more
Hofstra University senior Joe Booth helped a student at the Progressive School of Long Island, in North Merrick, on Feb. 13. Booth is teaching at the school’s Next Generation Computer Programming Academy this year.
‘Next Generation Academy’ fuels technology learning
At the Progressive School of Long Island, in North Merrick, computer science is seen as an essential subject. “Not knowing coding is kind of like putting kids in the library with books and not teaching them the alphabet,” said Progressive School Principal Eric Jacobson. more
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An Internet prince wants you to drop out
I’ve been thinking about Peter Thiel a lot lately. The more I try to get him off my mind, the more I find myself debating the PayPal founder in mock exchanges in my head. more
Sixth-graders at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School piled cold cuts and cheese slices onto bread on Jan. 30, creating sandwiches that Lakeside staffers would later donate to homeless people.
Lakeside students prepare food for the hungry
In just one day, sixth-graders at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick assembled more than a thousand sandwiches and bagged 350 cookies for people in need of meals. more
Among Kennedy High School’s Intel Science Talent Search badge winners were, back row, from left, Erika Fuchs, Rachel Chernet, Sara Harris, Jamie Kanner and Samuel Epstein; front row, Emily Manis, Logan Eisner, David Mark and Beatrice Brown. They were joined by their research advisers, Barbara Franklin, left, and Barbi Frank, right. Missing were Jayson Chojar and Justin Shapiro, both Intel semi-finalists.
Kennedy researchers earn Intel badges
Each year, the Society for Science & the Public awards Research Report and Initiative badges to recognize excellence in students’ submissions to the Intel Science Talent Search. Eleven of the 14 student researchers at Kennedy High School in Bellmore who submitted Intel entries in the 2015 competition received badges. more
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Among the Calhoun athletes to sign letters of intent were, from left, Emily Turrini, Allison Boldis, Griffin Miller, Spencer Kaufman, Jack Thomann, Alyssa Garbarino, Joanna Marmo and Jessica Arana.
Eight Calhoun athletes sign letters of intent
Eight Calhoun High School seniors recently signed letters of intent to play sports in college, and Calhoun held a ceremony on Jan. 16, emceed by Assistant Principal Neil Testa, to celebrate the athletes’ accomplishments. more
Two sides of the coin on education
Last week, President Obama and Governor Cuomo gave their annual addresses on the nation and state, and both focused a good portion of their speeches on education. While both placed a heavy emphasis on charter schools, they were far apart on other issues. more
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