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Nassau BOCES installed former East Meadow School District Superintendent Dr. Robert Dillon as its new district superintendent at a board meeting on Aug. 20.
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By David Weingrad
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8/27/15
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More than 200,000 New York students “opted out” of the grades three-through-eight Common Core English and math exams this spring.
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8/19/15
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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 …
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By Lynn M. Brown
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7/22/15
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I want to enumerate the many reasons I’m so against making test scores count for 50 percent of the ratings.
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6/24/15
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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 …
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By: Lynn M. Brown
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5/28/15
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The results in the Lynbrook school election are in, and the Lynbrook Board of Education will see two newcomers, as Lesli Deninno, David Yaker, and current board president Robert Paskoff were elected …
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By Brendan Murray
bmurray@liherald.com
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5/19/15
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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.
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5/7/15
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A half dozen veterans let their voices be heard at Lynbrook's Meet the Candidates Night on Monday, as they asked candidates to explain their thoughts on the veterans' tax exemption, which the …
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By Brendan Murray
bmurray@liherald.com
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5/6/15
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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 . . .
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4/30/15
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Over the years, I’ve investigated many hot-button topics in education, but none is as contentious as the battle over high-stakes testing for students in grades 3 through 8.
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4/16/15
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