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State is wrong on teacher evaluations

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

Education Law

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

HAFTR is one of 25 schools using the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education’s high school technology program. Chloe Gottlieb and Ilan Karasanti, both freshmen, demonstrated their project, a monitor for music volume that uses sensors called Smart Sound.

Displaying a desire for technology and learning

Nearly 700 ninth and 10th grade students from 25 area schools who are enrolled in the CIJE-Tech High School Engineering program participated in their Young Engineers conference at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway on May 19. more

By Vanessa Parker | 5/27/15

Winthrop-University Hospital offers free Bladder Cancer Awareness Day program

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

Launched late last month, a website that advocates for a proposed charter school in the Lawrence district will remain live as representatives consider their next step.

Charter school application to be withdrawn

The Lawrence Charter School’s application has been effectively rejected by the State Education Department. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/6/15

Let's start over with Common Core

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

Lawrence Charter School representatives used a survey, above, to gauge what parents want when it comes to their children’s education.

Stumping for a charter school

Dominique Dash sat in the Atlantic Beach Estates home of Burton and Jeanne Sacks a week ago and bemoaned what she said was a lack of opportunity for her elementary-age children to do advanced academic work in the Lawrence School District. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/29/15

Two challenged races for Lawrence BOE seats

There will be at least one, if not two new Lawrence Board of Education (BOE) members as Trustee Uri Kaufman will not run for a fourth term and incumbent Trustee Abel Feldhamer is being challenged by Matthew Russo. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/29/15

The financial impact of the proposed Lawrence Charter School on the Lawrence School District. according to the charter school representatives.

Charter school pushes its plans

The campaign to open a charter school in the Lawrence School District has resumed, as a group headed by Atlantic Beach Estates resident Burton Sacks has spoken to community members about the proposed school. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/22/15

To opt out or not: That is the question

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. more

4/16/15

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