Parents, residents and students stepped into the ring with their gloves off to demand information about the Alternative Special Education program at the Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education meeting on Aug. 31.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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9/8/10
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Valley Stream’s four school districts are in for some extra money, thanks to a new $10 billion federal education jobs bill.
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/1/10
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The Central High School District Board of Education will be moving its Alternative Special Education program for students in grades 10 -12 from Central High School to North for the upcoming school year, to join program students in grades 7-9. The move is now raising an alert from several local parents.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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8/25/10
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Test scores fell in all four Valley Stream school districts, across Long Island and throughout New York after the State Education Department raised the passing mark on state assessments in an effort to better prepare students for higher education.
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Andrew Hackmack
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8/4/10
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“He has done wonderful things for this district,” Martha Carney, the Valley Stream Central High School District’s coordinator of community information, said after Superintendent of Schools Marc Bernstein announced his retirement at the Board of Education’s reorganization meeting July 13. After almost seven years as superintendent, Bernstein will step down on Dec. 31.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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7/21/10
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Frank Chiachiere will serve as the president of District 13’s Board of Education for the 2010-11 school year. Joan Gartner, who was just re-elected to a three-year term, was selected as vice president.
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7/14/10
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The new elevator at Valley Stream Memorial Junior High School, which the district began constructing last September 2009, is almost ready to go, but just needs a few more tweaks before its set to take flight.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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7/14/10
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James A. Dever School’s kindergarten moving-up ceremony will be held on Friday, June 18 at 9 a.m. Sixth-grade graduation will be on Thursday, June 24 at 7 p.m.
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6/16/10
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Thirty-eight years after Joe Corea began his four-decade career as Calhoun High School's head baseball coach, he can still rattle off most of the names on his starting lineup from his very first year -–– 1972.
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Scott Brinton
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6/9/10
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The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education voted on May 11 to maintain its special education plan — a co-teaching model in grades 7 through 11 — for the 2010-11 school year.
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Anthony Bottan
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5/19/10
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