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Long-time school board member Frank Chiachiere is being opposed by Patrick Heaney, who also ran last year, for one of three seats up on the District 13 Board of Education this year. The winner will receive a three-year term.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/8/14
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Many challenges are facing the education system, and Sean Douglas is ready to tackle them head on. That’s why he is running for another term on the District 13 Board of Education.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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5/8/14
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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 . . .
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5/1/14
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There will be contested elections in only one of Valley Stream’s elementary school districts this year when voters head to the polls for the school budget and Board of Education vote on May 20.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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4/23/14
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“This is what my favorite event of the year is,” Valley Stream Council of PTAs President Michelle D’Elia said in welcoming hundreds of parents, teachers, students, administrators and Board of Education members to the 53rd annual Lights On For Education program on April 10.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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4/16/14
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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 …
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By Anishaa Kumar
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3/27/14
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The average homeowner in Nassau County typically spends 60 to 65 percent of his or her local taxes on schools. Don’t you want to know how your money is being spent?
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3/27/14
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The relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, continues to be shaky as they go head to head over education.
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3/13/14
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New York state is considering an initiative at 10 of its state prisons to give prisoners a college education. The program would bring college professors into the prisons . . .
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2/27/14
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It is an ignominious history that Long Islanders don’t like to remember or even recognize. For nearly 200 years, from the early 1600s to the early 1800s, Long Islanders owned slaves.
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2/20/14
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