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Billy Joel led a “master class” for students on Monday at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post. Joel pledged a $1 million donation to LIHSA recently and is working with the school to help increase enrollment through publicity.
Billy Joel meets students to raise LIHSA awareness
He’s not just about his $1 million donation to help prevent the Long Island High School for the Arts from closing. more
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People created a memorial near the site where Gabrielle Johnson, 12, was struck by a car and later died.
Community mourns Elmont H.S. student
On Feb. 1, an Elmont family experienced an almost unimaginable tragedy. Gabrielle Christina Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Elmont High School, stood on the corner of Village Avenue and … more
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Rock icon Billy Joel announced a $1 million contribution to the Long Island High School for the Arts last week, with the condition that Nassau BOCES keep the school open for another three years.
Billy Joel pledges help for L.I.H.S. for the Arts
Nassau BOCES announced at its meeting last week that rock icon Billy Joel would pledge $1 million from The Joel Foundation to help save the Long Island High School for the Arts in Syosset, which has been threatened with closure over the past year due to dwindling enrollment. more
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Sakeenah Benjamin, front, and Nakeem Grant, at back, were among six Hofstra University graduate journalism students who mentored members of the Hempstead High School newspaper club this fall as part of a new program begun by Scott Brinton, a Hofstra adjunct professor and the Heralds’ senior editor.
Showing aspiring reporters at Hempstead High the world of journalism
This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce … more
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Delmy Valle, right, a Hempstead High School senior, is concerned about how the media treats schools like Hempstead. She believes the media needs to give the school more positive attention to help boost students’ spirits. She was joined here by Franklyn Garcia in Advanced Placement calculus class.
Focusing on the positive at Hempstead High
Hempstead High School is called a “failing school” and has been so for the past 10 years, according to the the 2015 State of New York’s Failing Schools. With a graduation rate of 37 percent … more
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Lucy Acosta, a senior at Hempstead High School, emigrated from Honduras when she was 6 years old. She had to work hard to learn English. She says she feels comfortable among students who were born abroad as well as in the U.S., but she knows that not everyone does. Her article looks at ways to unite the two groups of students.
Uniting Hempstead High School as one
A loud, screeching bell rang through the hallway of my old elementary school as I was walking to my next class. As the halls filled with students at Bethpage Elementary School, I could feel the walls closing in on me. I noticed, however, a new face I hadn't seen before. It was a new kid at school who was accompanied by a parent, struggling to navigate through the chaos. I remembered when it was my innocent face –– a 6 year-old immigrant student from Honduras. more
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Long Island Muslim Society leaders said that interfaith services at the East Meadow mosque, like the one they hosted on June 22, bring community members of various faiths together.
Recapturing the narrative
Mohammed Saleh, 67, has a multi-faceted identity. He is a Bangladeshi immigrant who arrived in the U.S. 44 years ago, eventually moving to Merrick in 1985. He is a successful pharmacist who became a … more
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Scott Brinton
What I learned at Hempstead High
On my first day in Hempstead, I watched a man get arrested. I was driving by. There he was, on the sidewalk, a police officer leading him away in handcuffs. more
Photos by Christina Daly/Herald Hundreds crowded Kennedy Plaza last Friday for the city’s annual tree lighting ceremony, complete with an outdoor ice skating rink and a visit from Santa.
Lighting up the plaza
Hundreds gathered at Kennedy Plaza last Friday to kick off the holiday season at the city’s annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. In the weeks leading up to the event, the city asked residents … more
Long Beach High School was the target of a “terroristic threat” earlier this week, which officials said was not credible.
Student arrested for making threats to LBHS
Nassau County police arrested a Long Beach High School student on Tuesday after written threats against the school were reported earlier this week. The suspect, a 15-year old, was taken into … more
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