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The high school district’s Board of Education has approved the creation of a committee that will study a decades-old district policy that allows incoming students to choose the school they attend, and the policy’s impact on enrollment. The move, at a meeting on Aug. 29, came after parents and teachers signed a petition to the board in June protesting the policy, which its critics believe contributed to overcrowding at North High School that has now reached a tipping point.
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By Nick Ciccone
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9/6/17
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Victoria Alaimo and Elizabeth Klamkin were selected from among more than 3,000 nominees as quarterfinalists for the Grammy Music Educator Award, and have inched one step closer to winning a grand-prize trip to next year’s Grammy Awards on Jan. 28.
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By Melissa Koenig
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8/23/17
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Some concerned parents assert that the school waiver policy has led to overcrowding at North and South high schools (“Parents claim schools are overcrowded,” July 27-Aug. 2 issue). In the absence of quantitative data verifying this claim, I’ll leave the technical determination of whether or not a school building has met its functional capacity to our education experts — the superintendent and the Central High School District’s professional staff — although, I suspect it has not met that threshold.
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8/2/17
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Attorneys for the Central High School District have filed a suit against every member of District 24’s Board of Education, as well as the board itself, and forced the superintendent to appear in court on June 30 — a tactic that Richard Zuckerman, the attorney for District 24, said was unjustified.
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By Melissa Koenig
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7/12/17
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The Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency’ adjourned their June 30 meeting after only 10 minutes, unable to continue with a vote to break all ties with Macerich, the California-based owner of the Green Acres Mall, because a Nassau County Supreme Court judge halted the IDA’s decision with a temporary restraining order.
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By Melissa Koenig
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7/5/17
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The Central High School District Board of Education voted on June 13 to authorize a lawsuit against District 24 for about $2 million that it withheld from the high school district for the 2016–17 school year, after the districts disputed what was owed based on the uncertainty of the taxable status of the Green Acres Mall property.
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By Melissa Koenig
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6/21/17
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The Central High School District Board of Education passed a resolution on June 6 to ask the New York State Commissioner of Education to intervene if board members from District 24 do not recuse themselves from future meetings concerning possible litigation against District 24. The resolution passed by a vote of 5-to-3, with only District 24 board members voting “no.”
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By Melissa Koenig
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6/14/17
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A committee that polices student residency in districts 13, 24 and the Central High School district found that 54 non-residents were attending the schools this year.
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By Melissa Koenig
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6/7/17
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The Central High School District has hired a special counsel in response to District 24’s refusal to pay more than what its officials deem to be a fair share of the tax burden — dealing a blow to the otherwise-agreeable relationship between the Valley Stream school districts since the start of the Green Acres Mall tax-break controversy last year.
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By Melissa Koenig and Nick Ciccone
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5/18/17
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District 13
Proposed budget: $49,841,963
Total budget change: +$1,595,041
Tax levy: $35,479,114
Tax levy change: +$582,769
Tax impact: The district estimates the average homeowner …
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5/10/17
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