Local school leaders support a plan by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli which would allow districts more flexibility with a retirement benefit fund. more

For the last four years, Valley Stream resident Ivy McKee has petitioned the Central High School District Board of Education to form a district fencing team. Her daughter, Erica, 17, has fenced for a decade, while her youngest daughter, Niki, is currently fencing in the Junior Olympics. more

The Valley Stream Central High School District may lose about $2.5 million in state aid and Superintendent Dr. Marc Bernstein suggested a few scenarios on how to close the gap in the upcoming 2010-11 budget. more

Valley Stream’s four school districts stand to lose about $4 million in state aid if Gov. David Paterson’s proposed cuts for next year become reality. more

The Central High School District’s administrators are recommending few capital projects to the Board of Education for inclusion in the 2010-11 budget, primarily because of the unknown status of state aid. The proposed projects total $206,000 in repairs at its four schools. more

Assemblyman Bob Barra held his annual Toys for Tots drive to bring a some Christmas cheer to local children. more

One of the primary objectives for the Central High School District is to prepare its students for college. more

The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education voted 7-2 at its Dec. 8 meeting to extend Superintendent Dr. Marc Bernstein’s contract for another year, keeping the district leader through June 30, 2011. more

Craig Papach, Kennedy High School's athletic coordinator and a 19-year phys. ed. teacher, had long heard the stories of poverty and loneliness, and he wanted to help. So, on Thanksgiving morning, he and his family piled into their car and made the trek from their suburban home in a quiet Wantagh neighborhood to a tiny church on Beach 94th Street in Queens. They went to lend their hands and, equally important, their ears to a day-long effort to aid the homeless. Papach was one of 10 Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District teachers who joined roughly 100 volunteers from Rock and Wrap It Up, a Five Towns-based nonprofit group founded by Syd Mandelbaum, to feed hundreds of impoverished street denizens, some of whom had not eaten for days. more

The Valley Stream Central High School District will launch its new interactive Web site next week, officials said, and the new site will feature more pictures of students, have downloadable forms, and offer access to assignments for students who are absent. more