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After a round-table discussion with East Meadow School District administrators, teachers, parents and students on Oct. 2 at Clarke, State Education Commissioner Dr. John King Jr. lauded the school for its interdisciplinary collaboration.
Top education officials visits Clarke M.S.
New York State Education Commissioner Dr. John King Jr. had high praise for the East Meadow School District last week, after he visited W.T. Clarke Middle School on Oct. 2 to see firsthand how instructors teach the Common Core State Standards. more
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Long Island’s representative on the New York State Board of Regents Roger Tilles visited Lawrence Middle School on Sept. 19. At left were school district Board of Education Trustee Dr. Asher Mansdorf, Tilles and Superintendent Gary Schall.
Talking education with Roger Tilles
Born in Great Neck and educated in that district’s public schools, Roger Tilles has an indelible memory of the last time he was in a school building in the Lawrence School District which he visited on Sept. 19. more
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State: 95 percent of EMSD teachers are ‘effective’
The New York State Education Department has made public its 2012-2013 Annual Professional Performance Reviews. Results for all districts can be viewed on nysed.gov. more
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Christian Corvell, 3, worked with teacher’s assistant Jeannette Perafan.
Kids First adding a preschool
Kids First Evaluation & Advocacy Center, Inc., a Salisbury-based agency that has provided early-intervention and preschool special education services in Nassau and Suffolk counties since 1997, is now offering an educational opportunity that they say is one-of-a-kind — a private preschool combining the expertise of various specialists aimed for both typically developing children and those with special needs. more
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OK, I'll say it: Teachers deserve tenure
In jumping into the teacher-tenure debate, I know I’m stirring up a hornet’s nest. But who doesn’t like a little danger now and again? So here goes. more
EAST MEADOW: support the budget; re-elect Fanelli
East Meadow School District residents can’t lose when they go to the polls on Tuesday. There they will decide whether to support the district’s proposed 2014-15 budget of $191.1 million — a 1.53 percent increase over the current spending plan. more
Joseph Danenza, at left, Scott Eckers and Corey Fanelli are running for school board in this year's election. Danenza, a four-year incumbent, is running unopposed. Eckers is a first-time challenger against Fanelli, who has sat on the board since 2010.
Two running for one seat
When East Meadow School District residents vote on whether to approve the district’s proposed 2014-15 budget on Tuesday, they will also decide on a seat on the Board of Education. more
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The East Meadow School District’s musical program, under the direction of Abby Behr, was recently listed among the NAMM Foundation’s “Best Communities for Music Education” in America. Pictured above, hundreds of student-musicians performed at the annual District Music Festival at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts last winter.
Music program earns national accolades
The East Meadow School District was named by the NAMM Foundation in March as one of the nation’s most exemplary districts for musical education. NAMM, a nonprofit supported by the National Association of Music Merchants, selected 376 districts as 2014’s Best Communities for Music Education. East Meadow was selected among a field of more than 2,000 schools and districts. more
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Our taxes are sky-high, but the tax cap will help
I ran for governor against Eliot Spitzer in 2006 on a platform to cap property taxes. He won. It was a painful experience, but it laid the groundwork . . . more
Substance-abuse experts say the legalization of marijuana in Colorado is making drug education more difficult. Many teens, they say, now underestimate the dangers that the drug presents.
Drug education getting tougher in Nassau County after budget cuts
With heroin claiming the lives of hundreds in Nassau and Suffolk counties over the past two years, police are stepping up enforcement measures. In February, nine were arrested in the so-called … more
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