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Penny Ellis, a special-education teacher at Oceanside High School, was quite surprised when she found out that she was a semifinalist in “Live! with Regis and Kelly’s” second annual Top …
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Alex Costello
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5/11/11
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Kennedy High School junior Ross Shulman returned to the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education meeting last Wednesday to make his case that the district should eliminate substitute-teachers to save money and preserve full-time teaching positions. Instead of substitutes, Shulman advocated for a plan to use empty general-purpose rooms and cafeterias to house students under the direction of aides when their teachers are absent.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/11/11
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Second of two parts.
Last time I introduced the ups and downs in the teacher job market. Not long ago, I warned that a dangerous teacher shortage was on the horizon; now, we’re talking about cutbacks, layoffs, and the difficulty of getting a teaching job. What’s the story?
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By Steve Kussin
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5/6/11
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Chris McAvoy, a 16-year-old West Hempstead High School sophomore, has been selected as a finalist to represent Long Island in the New York Science Congress in Albany next month.
The regional …
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By Svenja van den Woldenberg
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5/4/11
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A prolonged standstill that has left West Hempstead teachers working without a contract for two years is nearing an end.
Following the release of a report filed by a state-appointed fact-finder, …
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By Lee Landor
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5/4/11
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is planning to cut 13 teaching positions next school year. Before the district cuts these teachers, though, it must do everything in its power to save them. They are the people who give your children an education, not SMART Boards, not artificial-turf fields and not substitute-teachers.
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By Ross Shulman
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4/7/11
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The student, all of 12 or 13 years old, slammed my already broken left hand against the cinder-block wall. Pain shot down my plastered skin. The boy then ran out of the suspension room, pursuing another student with whom he had gotten into a fistfight.
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Scott Brinton
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4/7/11
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District 30 music teacher Emilia Kister says she has always tried to be on the cutting edge of music education. Now, she has been rewarded for efforts, selected as a recipient of the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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3/31/11
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Teachers and administrators in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District have agreed to voluntarily freeze their salaries for the 2011-12 academic year in order to avoid further budget cuts and preserve student programs. In all, the wage freeze will save the district $840,000, according to Central officials.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/25/11
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To the Editor:In her March 10-16 column (“Modern education: Trickle-up dumbing down”), writer Randi Kreiss calls for the elimination of teacher tenure, repeating the canard that tenure …
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3/24/11
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