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Stella Crawford’s fourth-grade class at Malverne’s Davison Avenue Intermediate School read a selection from their English/Language Arts text book titled “Me & Uncle …
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2/8/12
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Davison Avenue Intermediate School teacher Janis Romanoff was honored recently receiving the National Board Certification for Literacy. Given by the National Board for Professional Teaching …
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2/8/12
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To the many sports parents who dream of sending their star athletes to college on full athletic scholarships, think again, says Seth Tierney, head men’s lacrosse coach at Hofstra University in Hempstead.
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Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/28/12
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On Jan. 17, in front of New York’s policymakers, Governor Cuomo announced his 2012-13 budget. The governor used the speech to apply pressure to our state’s unions, interest groups and school districts by defiantly stating, take what we’re offering or make due without state funding.
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1/26/12
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The Middle Country School District in Suffolk County faces a $10.3 million budget deficit in 2012-13 because of Governor Cuomo’s vaunted 2 percent property-tax levy cap, so Middle Country is considering eliminating its pre-school program, reducing full-day kindergarten to a half-day and axing sports and after-school clubs for middle and high school students, according to News12.
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1/19/12
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All Malverne High School alumna Sarah St. John wants is more scrutiny.
So she told the Malverne Board of Education at its monthly meeting Jan. 10, some time after it had mailed her a letter saying …
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By Lee Landor
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1/18/12
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Some 2,200 student athletes from public and parochial schools across Nassau County united on Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, to honor King and humanitarians by holding its annual …
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1/18/12
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The last time several dozen West Hempstead residents gathered at the West Hempstead Middle School cafeteria for a budget “café,” which was in late November, they developed an …
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Lee Landor
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1/18/12
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center and Nassau County Legislator David Denenberg will present a program about the college athletic recruiting process, “Does Your Child Dream of Playing Sports in College?” The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Brookside School, 1260 Meadowbrook Road in North Merrick.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/17/12
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They’re called “pharm parties,” short for pharmacy parties. A group of teenagers –– perhaps as young as 12 and 13 years old –– methodically swipe opiate-based pain killers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone from their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets, dump the pills into a big bowl when no adult is looking and take turns rolling a die. Whatever number comes up, that’s the number of pills a teen must ingest.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/12/12
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