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Last week, New York state won nearly $700 million in federal Race to the Top money, which will be used by the state for education. The goal of Race to the Top is to encourage states to reform … more
Schools to Watch, a national program adopted by New York state, may soon be making its way to the Oceanside School District. At a recent school board meeting, Oceanside Middle School Principal … more
Just a few weeks ago, New York State released the results of its 2010 English/Language Arts and Math state exams for grades 3-8, and many were shocked. The state decided to raise the passing score … more
Gone are the days where students could skip class and rush home to erase the automated message sent by the school district off of the answering machine. Set to launch in September, the Oceanside … more
After more than a year in the courts, the $6 million defamation lawsuit filed by Oceanside resident Denise Finkel against four of her former classmates and the social networking website Facebook was … more
After four consecutive days of victories, Baldwin native John Krizel was defeated on the fifth day by a black hole. That was the answer — more specifically, the question — John missed during … more
One of the victims of the Hartford Distributors workplace shooting in Manchester, Conn. on Aug. 3 was a native of Oceanside. A day after the murders, friends recalled Louis Felder as a big man with a … more
Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York. more
Test scores fell across Long Island and throughout New York after the State Education Department raised the bar at all grade levels in an effort to better prepare students for higher education. … more
An accident on Lawson Boulevard on July 26 wrecked a car but no one seriously injured. A female driver hit the rear of a school bus at around 5:30 p.m. The bus was not in service at the time, and … more
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