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Administrators proposed new suggested cuts to close an $800,000 gap in the 2018-19 budget during a meeting on Monday. The budget was adopted on Tuesday.
District closes $800,000 budget gap, adopts spending plan
Three weeks after the Board of Education and school administrators debated how to close an $800,000 gap in the 2018-19 budget, the district presented a plan Monday that was met with unofficial approval. more
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Schools Superintendent Dr. William Johnson said administrators would go back to the drawing board after the Board of Education rejected portions of the district's plan to narrow an $800,000 budget gap during a meeting on March 28.
Rockville Centre school officials mull how to cut 2018-19 budget
Board of Education members shot down a proposed plan by Rockville Centre school administrators that would have closed an $800,000 gap in the 2018-19 budget, asking the district to look elsewhere for cuts. more
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Now’s the time to speak up on school budgets
As far back as 1993, there was talk at the highest levels of government of consolidating Long Island school districts to save money and provide greater resources for the Island’s poorest districts. That debate is likely to be resurrected . . . more
Students in the BMBroadcasting program at Mepham High School in North Bellmore were busy on a recent Thursday preparing for an important show featuring an interview with the school principal, Eric Gomez. Among them were, clockwise from top left, sophomores Colleen Hefferen, of Bellmore, and Aidan Carolan, of North Merrick; senior Jason Spiller, of Bellmore; and junior Michael Daniels, of North Merrick. Simulating authentic workaday situations is at the heart of experiential learning, educators say.
Experiential learning, vocational education making a comeback
Part five in the series “Educating the 21st Century Child.”Mepham High School broadcast teacher Stu Stein often holds class in the dark, and with virtually every surface in his … more
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State’s newly adopted Next Generation standards ‘encouraging’
After two years of collecting input from parents, educators and the public to revise New York’s controversial learning standards and assessments, the Board of Regents approved the State Education Department’s Next Generation Learning Standards for English and mathematics earlier this month, sparking hope among some Rockville Centre school leaders. more
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Rockville Centre Schools Superintendent Dr. William Johnson thanked the Board of Education for agreeing to extend his contract through 2020 at a meeting on Sept. 6.
RVC Board of Ed, ‘Dr. J’ reach contract extension agreement
After news broke throughout the district last December that Rockville Centre Schools Superintendent Dr. William Johnson would step down at the end of the 2017-18 school year, residents — donning T-shirts that read “Keep RVC Schools Great! Keep Dr. J” — packed a January Board of Education meeting to show their support for Johnson. more
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South Side High School students explored the district’s zSpace virtual-reality technology, which will be available for a second straight year.
New academic initiatives come into focus in Rockville Centre
With a new school year around the corner, the Rockville Centre School District will be expanding its offerings to students of all ages throughout its seven buildings. With help from the Rockville Centre Education Foundation, which donated $68,000 to the district in June to fund 15 initiatives for the coming year, students will have the opportunity to broaden their academic horizons. more
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According to Rockville Centre school officials, 58 percent of the students in grades 3 to 7 opted out of the May 2-4 math test.
Slight drop in RVC math test opt-outs
The Rockville Centre School District saw slight dips in the number and percentage of third-through-seventh graders who opted out of the New York State math assessment last week, and the latest figure … more
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Rockville Centre Herald reporter Peter Belfiore tries his hand at the district’s NWEA adaptive ELA test.
A look at RVC Schools' NWEA adaptive assessment test
It started with a question about the “Wizard of Oz.” After reading a small passage where Dorothy’s Auntie Em and Uncle Henry meet the Cowardly Lion, I was asked to identify how the … more
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The Rockville Centre district had three schools finish in the top five in the country during the Lightsail 25 Reading Challenge, while 16 students placed among the top 100 out of nearly 16,000 students nationwide.
RVC students see the ‘Light’ as top readers
Three Rockville Centre elementary schools finished among the top 10 in a national reading competition and three of its students were among the top readers in the country, according to The schools … more
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