Members of the West Hempstead High School Honor Society recently visited Chestnut Street School and read to kindergartners as part of the school’s Read Across America program.
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3/18/14
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One year after the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the West Hempstead district has taken preliminary measures to protect their students as they enter a new year. …
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By Emily Webb
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12/31/13
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In January of 1913, the newly formed West Hempstead Union Free School District #27 opened its first school.
One hundred years ago, the Chestnut Street School was a four room schoolhouse, …
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1/15/13
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A demographic study presented by Western Suffolk BOCES last week showed declines in enrollment in the West Hempstead school district. The study, school officials said, will help the district school …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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8/20/12
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The Space Utilization Committee of the West Hempstead Board of Education — a group formed by school officials to gather public input on how the school district can use empty space at the Chestnut …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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7/24/12
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“This is about honoring all those from our community who died on 9/11,” said Rose Senti, a West Hempstead resident of 80 years. “It’s good to have a piece of history now.”
On March 28, …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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4/3/12
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The West Hempstead Historical Society recently celebrated achievement of one of its long-standing goals of establishing a permanent display area at the West Hempstead Public Library.
The display, …
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2/8/12
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First grade students at the George Washington School who participated in the West Hempstead Elementary School Summer Reading Program were greeted on Oct. 26 by a mystery reader — West Hempstead …
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11/2/11
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Michelle Notti is excited to begin her new role as the principal of the Chestnut Street School, West Hempstead school district’s kindergarten center.
“Kindergarten, for me, has always …
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Lee Landor
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10/12/11
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Who can identify beginning, middle and ending sounds? How are our kindergarten students composing and decomposing numbers? How are students developing language skills?
The answers to these …
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6/8/11
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