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Dr. Paul Lynch, Lynbrook’s assistant superintendent for finance, operations and information systems, left, spoke passionately about how the New York Education Department should approve Lynbrook’s smart schools bond plans.

Lynbrook school officials to install security vestibule

It has been more than a year since Dr. Paul Lynch, the Lynbrook School District’s assistant superintendent for finance, sent the State Education Department plans to use a nearly $893,000 Smart Schools Bond to fund security updates for the district. more

By Melissa Koenig | 3/29/18

Paul Lynch, left, Lynbrook’s assistant superintendent of finance, operations and information systems, presented the district’s smart bond proposal in December 2016. Superintendent Dr. Melissa Burak, second from left, wrote a letter to the State Education Department last month after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., because the nearly $893,000 plan — which focuses on school safety initiatives — has yet to be approved.

Lynbrook school officials awaiting funds for safety initiatives

With educators across the country evaluating safety procedures after the recent mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., Lynbrook School District officials sent a letter to the State Education Department seeking to expedite hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding that the district should have been awarded last spring for security initiatives — but was not. more

By Mike Smollins | 3/1/18

Lynbrook High School is one out of 155 schools statewide to be recognized as a Reward School by the New York State Education Department.

Lynbrook High School earns Reward School recognition

Lynbrook High School was recently recognized as a Reward School by the New York State Education Department for its continued high academic performance among students. more

2/7/18

State Education Department officials announced on Jan. 18 that ten Oceanside School No. 2 students may have been affected by a data breach. Oceanside school officials have responded.

Ten Oceanside students affected in NYSED vendor data breach

An unauthorized user may have had access to personal information of ten Oceanside School No. 2 students State Education Department officials said on Jan. 18. According to a news release, Questar … more

By Peter Belfiore | 1/18/18

State should rethink its local-diploma policy

Since 2012, when New York state adopted the Common Core State Standards, many students with special needs have received certificates rather than diplomas when they completed high school. more

8/3/17

Here we go again: a new set of learning standards

New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core. more

6/1/17

State must revamp school violence reporting

Nearly half a million students, ages 12 to 18, fell victim to violence at schools across the U.S. in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available, according to . . . more

12/2/16

State must get Common Core right this time

Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time. more

10/13/16

How ‘opt out’ roiled Common Core

For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . . more

9/15/16

The East Meadow Board of Education presented its new policy on field testing to the public at the April 21 communications meeting.

East Meadow School District rejects field testing

The East Meadow Board of Education recently announced that students in third through eighth grades would no longer take the field tests that the creators of the State Education Department’s … more

By Julie Mansmann | 5/12/16

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