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This past year the East Rockaway Board of Education set a goal to complete a baseline survey gauging parent/community satisfaction as it relates to academics, athletics, extra-curricular activities, …
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5/11/11
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Facing several mandated increases, officials found a way to balance the budget without cutting any programs for next year.
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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3/30/11
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Heated discussions about a possible artificial-turf field for the district have ended — at least until May. At the Lynbrook Board of Education’s last budget work session, on March 23, trustees voted 4-3 to offer a proposition for a $4.6 million artificial-turf complex in the upcoming district election. The money, trustees said, will come from the district’s reserves, and its Renovation and Improvement of Facilities fund.
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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3/30/11
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Randi Weingarten, former president of the United Federation of Teachers, now head of the American Federation of Teachers, recently delivered a speech titled, “Towards a True Development and Evaluation System.” She was being proactive by presenting her own plan in response to recent calls for revamping teacher assessment and tenure.
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By Steve Kussin
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3/17/11
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Classroom aides and lunchroom monitors in the Malverne school district are sick of working without sick days, vacation time and, most important, respect.
“We feel like we’re treated …
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By Lee Landor
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3/16/11
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The New York Times reported last week that three-quarters of the 17,500 freshman at City University of New York’s six community colleges require remedial classes in reading and writing and math.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/10/11
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On April 19, 1969, members of Cornell University’s Afro-American Society occupied Willard Straight Hall on the Ithaca campus to protest a litany of perceived racial injustices after a cross was burned outside Wari House, a cooperative for African-American female students. During the occupation, AAS members smuggled in rifles and bandoliers of ammunition.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/2/11
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For several local school districts, balancing budgets is becoming a daunting challenge. Higher pension costs, a loss of state aid and a possible state tax cap have many school officials looking to tighten their spending plans.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his first budget proposal on Feb. 1, and districts are being told to tap into their reserve funds to make up for the possible, impending state aid cutbacks and a proposed 2 percent tax cap. Many administrators say they have few options for dealing with increasing costs.
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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2/16/11
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On Feb. 1, Governor Cuomo delivered his first budget address. It was a no-holds-barred speech in which he admitted that years of dysfunction and mismanagement has driven our state into “functional bankruptcy.”
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by Al D'Amato
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2/11/11
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A group of local dentists volunteered last week to help get kids on their way to building healthy teeth.
Seventy-five dentists from the Nassau County Dental Society, with the help of …
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by Mike Caputo
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2/9/11
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