Q: I obtained a summer internship through my college career center in a field relevant to my major. I am working full-time for a private, for-profit employer. However, I am not getting paid. Is this … more

Last Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy drowned the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway with more than nine feet of saltwater, destroying its pumps, shutting down its operating systems and overwhelming the already weak facility. more

Two weeks ago, the Herald detailed new English and math standardized tests that New York’s public and charter schools gave to students in grades three to eight last month. In this report, the Herald continues an examination of how “opting out” from the tests could affect the students who did so and their schools. more

First of two parts. School officials in the Merrick, North Merrick and Bellmore-Merrick Central High School districts say they do not yet fully know how certain parents’ refusal to allow their children to take new standardized tests will affect the students or their schools. more

Parents taking part in a movement spreading across Long Island have refused to let their children sit for state-mandated testing, protesting academic standards that they say have become unrealistically challenging. more

A handful of parents in Merrick and North Merrick told school administrators that they would refuse to allow their children to sit for new standardized state exams, which began in elementary schools around the state this week. The parents, who believe that the standardized exams lack pedagogical merit and are harmful to students, say they would like to see a grass-roots civil-disobedience movement involving other parents taking the same action that would force the state to cancel the exams. In all, 50 students did not take the exams on Tuesday, the first day they were administered, according to officials in both districts. more

When students sit down to take their mandated English Language Arts assessment the third week of this month, and then math a week later, fewer will pass than last year. That’s the message from the New York State Education Department, which recently sent out a memo to school officials, warning them to expect a drop in scores. more

With the new Common Core Standards being implemented, New York state seems in line to roll out new, more difficult Regents Exams in the next school year, making them more akin to Advance Placement … more

Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest. more

Both the Oceanside and Island Park school districts were among a fraction of the total school districts in the state that submitted their teacher evaluation plans on time. And while Island Park’s … more