Valley Stream’s four school districts are gearing up for the first day of school, and the annual tradition is accompanied by a few changes. District 13’s Willow Road Elementary School has a … more

While 91 percent of Lynbrook teachers were rated highly effective or effective in the New York State Education Department’s latest compilation of teachers’ performance, that was 4 percentage … more

Jordan Gluck, who was in sixth grade at Dinkelmeyer Elementary School this past year, said she was a bit scared when she arrived at the New York State School Music Association Major Organization … more

Teachers at Bellmore’s Shore Road School challenged sixth-graders with an important task before they moved on to Grand Avenue Middle School: help those in need across Long Island. more

The Long Island Volunteer Center, an affiliate of Points of Light’s HandsOn Network, secured a $50,000 grant from the Major League Baseball Players Trust to help restore the damage done by … more

A longtime trustee of the Bellmore School District Board of Education is seeking reelection in an uncontested race. Jay L. T. Breakstone, who has served the Board of Education for nearly 20 years, said he has more goals that he would like to accomplish as a trustee. more

Those who attended Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting entered the middle school auditorium unsure of what the 2014-15 district budget’s final spending and tax levy numbers would be, even … more

Talk about overdue. The Long Beach High School library received an unusual package recently, when Amy Sue McPartlan returned a library book titled “American Arts,” by Rilla Evelyn Jackman, … more

Students in the Bellmore Public Schools celebrated the end of the academic year and the arrival of summer during the district’s two field days. Bellmore’s youngest students at the Charles A. Reinhard Early Childhood Center took the field on June 4. Third- and fourth-graders at the Winthrop Avenue School celebrated their field day on June 11. more

The Bellmore and North Bellmore school districts said goodbye not only to beloved members of the faculty and staff in various buildings this June, but also to administrators who will officially retire on July 1. North Bellmore bid Superintendent Arnold Goldstein and seven other retirees farewell at a June 13 meeting of the Board of Education. District officials also thanked Trustee Rosemarie Corless for more than seven years of service. Corless will not sit on next year’s board, having lost her re-election bid in May. At Bellmore’s board meeting on June 18, Clifford Molinelli, the principal of the Charles A. Reinhard Early Childhood Center, and three others were recognized. more