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The Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the 2017-18 budget last week, a $135 million spending plan that represents a -.15 percent decrease over the current budget and includes a $1.9 …
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By Bridget Downes
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4/13/17
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Almost half of eligible Long Beach students in grades three through eight refused to take the Common Core English Language Arts exams last week.
A total of 717 out of 1,565 enrolled students …
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By Bridget Downes
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4/6/17
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Hundreds of members of the Long Beach School Employees Association and the Classroom Teachers Association picketed outside Long Beach Middle School before the Jan. 12 Board of Education meeting, …
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By Bridget Downes
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1/19/17
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Nearly half a million students, ages 12 to 18, fell victim to violence at schools across the U.S. in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available, according to . . .
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12/2/16
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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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Members of the Long Beach Schools Employees Association — encompassing all district workers aside from teachers and administrators — stormed out of the Board of Education’s Oct. 13 meeting after demanding a fair contract.
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By Ben Strack
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10/27/16
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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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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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At a special meeting on July 22, the board of education appointed Jeffrey Myers as the new principal of Long Beach High School.
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8/11/16
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A Nassau County Supreme Court judge granted a motion on July 26 for five parents to file a late claim against the Long Beach School District, accusing it of failing to act on complaints of abuse of their severely autistic children by their former special education teacher.
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By Ben Strack
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8/10/16
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