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A trio of thorny issues — the 2012-13 school calendar, linking teacher evaluations to state aid, and the 2 percent tax levy cap — topped the agenda at the Jan. 18 Board of Education meeting
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Judy Rattner
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1/25/12
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget, which would link increased aid for education to the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems, will not change Oceanside School district’s …
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Aaron Axelson
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1/25/12
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When Joseph Szabo first came to teach art classes at Malverne High School in 1972, he was 28 — only a decade older than some of his students. Still, the Ohio native had difficulty relating to …
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Lee Landor
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1/25/12
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Officials in Bellmore-Merrick’s five school districts say they aren’t worried that Governor Cuomo is threatening to withhold a state aid increase if they do not agree on a new, tougher teacher evaluation system within a month.
Four of the districts –– the Bellmore, Merrick and North Bellmore elementary districts and the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District –– have already instituted the new system. Meanwhile, officials in the North Merrick Elementary District, which has not implemented it, say they weren’t expecting an aid increase anyway.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/24/12
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For the last five years, William Signorile has attended almost every single monthly meeting of the West Hempstead Board of Education. In that time, the single father of two teens has seen what he …
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Lee Landor
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1/4/12
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Donna Banek, a seventh-grade science teacher at the Howard T. Herber Middle School in Malverne, has been appointed to represent all of Nassau County in the Science Teachers Association of New York …
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12/14/11
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The work of West Hempstead High School art teacher Evangeline Christodoulou has once again been accepted by members of the National Art Education Association as representative of the 2012 theme of …
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Lee Landor
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12/7/11
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Dozens of volunteers from the Five Towns and Bellmore-Merrick communities turned out on Thursday to help at Rock and Wrap It Up’s annual Thanksgiving feast at the First Congregational Church at Beach 94th Street in Rockaway Beach, which provides a hot meal of turkey and ham with all the trimmings to families in need.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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11/25/11
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Valley Stream schools will be losing hundreds of years of teaching experience next June, as 18 teachers will be taking advantage of a retirement incentive being offered this year.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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11/16/11
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Nine Valley Stream public school principals have signed onto a letter asking state education Commissioner John B. King Jr. and the Board of Regents to delay and change a new teacher evaluation plan that links educator ratings to student test scores.
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By Judy Rattner and Andrew Hackmack
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11/10/11
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