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It is probably among the nation’s most thankless jobs –– Board of Education trustee. School board members spend untold hours . . .
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10/27/16
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Tyler Jake Gildin, son of Melissa and William Gilding of Woodsburgh will marry Zara Brandes Richman, daughter of Caryn and Irwin Richman of Commack on Saturday.
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10/19/16
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Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time.
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10/13/16
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The New York State Education Department last week released new draft English and math learning standards for public comment, according Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.
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By Scott Brinton and Diana Colapietro
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10/5/16
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New York State mandates the distances that school districts must provide transportation to students, but it is left to the districts to establish the bus routes, the pick-up points and how many children are a bus and how many stops are made.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/30/16
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For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . .
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9/15/16
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Eating a lot to benefit Priority 1 in Cedarhurst
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The all-you-can-eat Fleischfest (fleisch is Yiddish for meat) was held at a home on Oakwood Avenue in Cedarhurst on Aug. 15 to benefit Priority 1, the alternative yeshiva, also in Cedarhurst, that serves at-risk kids.
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8/24/16
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The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and the Rockaways started its STEM program — focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics — three years ago in order to produce more engaged students who are better prepared for 21st-century jobs.
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By Yitzchak Carroll
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8/24/16
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Patricia Mertz, a former Hewlett resident who moved to Maryland in 1997, comes back every year to visit the massive 49-year-old copper beech tree that is planted outside to the Woodmere Education Center in Woodmere because of her personal connection to it and what it means to the community.
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By Diana Colapietro
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8/17/16
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A plan to transform an underused basketball court on the grounds of Clara H. Carlson Elementary School, in Elmont, by professional soccer team the New York Cosmos has failed to reach its funding …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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