In an unexpected development at the end of the Board of Education organizational meeting on July 5, school board President Liz Dion announced that the board and Superintendent Dr. William Johnson had reached agreement on a new four-year contract for Johnson that includes no salary increases and boosts his health care contributions.
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Judy Rattner
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7/13/11
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In a surprise statement that came at the end of the Board of Education organizational meeting on July 5, school board President Liz Dion announced that the board and Superintendent Dr. William Johnson have reached agreement on a new four-year contract for him that includes no salary increases over its term and increases his contributions toward health care benefits. In a departure from previous contracts, the new contract does not contain a so-called “evergreen” clause that causes it to automatically renew at the end of each year.
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Judy Rattner
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7/11/11
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It would be inaccurate to describe the population of Rockville Centre as a mosaic — the village is, after all, 88 percent white — but 2010 U.S. Census data show that it has become slightly more diverse since the last census, in 2000.
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Judy Rattner
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4/13/11
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The mood was somber as school board trustees and Rockville Centre school district administrators sat down on Feb. 1 for the first of six public work sessions on the 2011-12 budget.
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Judy Rattner
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2/9/11
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The Nassau County Legislature voted 11-8 to approve County Executive Ed Mangano’s $2.6 billion budget on Saturday night, following a contentious, two-day public hearing in Mineola that turned …
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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11/3/10
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“Just when you think everything’s going well,” said school Superintendent Dr. William Johnson of new testing guidelines recently issued by the New York State Education Department, “it’s not.”
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Judy Rattner
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10/6/10
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It was back to school for Rockville Centre students on Tuesday, as a fleet of bright yellow school buses and legions of parents took their children to school on what otherwise would have been a sunny — and quiet — late-summer day.
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Judy Rattner
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9/8/10
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Last week, New York state won nearly $700 million in federal Race to the Top money, which it will use for education.
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Alex Costello
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9/1/10
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South Side High School has again been ranked among the top 100 high schools in the country in the annual list compiled by Newsweek magazine, which was released over the weekend.
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Katherine Kollitides and Judy Rattner
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6/16/10
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Voters in the Rockville Centre school district have approved the 2010-11 school budget of $93.4 million. In unofficial results Tuesday night, the spending plan passed with 2,483 votes, 55 percent of the votes cast, while 2,027 residents voted against it. Despite periods of heavy rain during the day, district officials said the voter turnout was the heaviest since 2006.
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Judy Rattner
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5/18/10
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