I am angry with Governor Cuomo. No, I am furious.
more
9/17/15
|
I don’t know about you, but my ancestors weren’t born here. In 1910, a 13-year-old boy from Odessa, traveling alone, boarded a ship with a ticket that entitled him to a bunk in steerage, and he set sail for America.
more
9/2/15
|
Nassau BOCES installed former East Meadow School District Superintendent Dr. Robert Dillon as its new district superintendent at a board meeting on Aug. 20.
more
By David Weingrad
|
8/27/15
|
More than 200,000 New York students “opted out” of the grades three-through-eight Common Core English and math exams this spring.
more
8/19/15
|
Q: Are my child's private Facebook postings truly confidential?
A: Maybe not. It has long been the law that schools can look at and use social media postings done outside …
more
By Lynn M. Brown
|
7/22/15
|
I want to enumerate the many reasons I’m so against making test scores count for 50 percent of the ratings.
more
6/24/15
|
Q: My school district in Nassau County, where my special needs child attends school, wants to move him to a different type of classroom situation that I think is inappropriate. Can I keep him …
more
By: Lynn M. Brown
|
5/28/15
|
To learn more about bladder cancer, the public is invited to attend a free educational program, Bladder Cancer Awareness Day, at Winthrop-University Hospital on May 9, from 9 a.m. to noon. It will be held in the Winthrop Research and Academic Center, 101 Mineola Blvd., Mineola.
more
5/7/15
|
Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears locked in a political death spiral. Last year brought growing dissatisfaction with the State Education Department’s dysfunctional implementation of the new Common Core State Standards . . .
more
4/30/15
|
Contrary to federal rules requiring 95 percent student participation in the third- through eighth-grade standardized state assessments, 25 percent of Malverne students and 10 percent of those in West Hempstead opted out of the state’s English exam last week, school district officials said, leaving many wondering about the potential financial ramifications.
more
By Rossana Weitekamp
|
4/22/15
|