Local school districts will get some extra money than initially anticipated in the New York State budget recently passed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature.
more
By Andrew Hackmack
|
4/13/11
|
Bilal Siddiqui, who is all of 17, began work on a research project aimed at understanding how cancer cells hijack the body’s own enzymes in order to metastasize, or spread, when he was still a sophomore at Mepham High School last year.
more
By Scott Brinton
|
4/13/11
|
Mepham High School senior Steven Tsai was recently crowned New York state champion in the Poetry Out Loud competition, a national contest that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance and competition.
more
By David Weingrad
|
4/11/11
|
The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is planning to cut 13 teaching positions next school year. Before the district cuts these teachers, though, it must do everything in its power to save them. They are the people who give your children an education, not SMART Boards, not artificial-turf fields and not substitute-teachers.
more
By Ross Shulman
|
4/7/11
|
A team of five Mepham High School students recently took first place at the Physics Olympiad at SUNY Farmingdale. The winning physicists were, from left, Werda Alam, Tara Panzarino, Mollie Bienstock, Josh Haimson and Bilal Siddiqui. They were joined by their teacher and coach William Leacock.
more
4/7/11
|
The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education is looking into whether South High School’s address could change in the near future.
more
By Clarissa Hamlin
|
4/7/11
|
Administrators and students at Memorial Junior High and North High School are working harder than ever to treat the age-old problem of bullying.
more
By Clarissa Hamlin
|
4/6/11
|
Valley Streamer Steve Buscemi has been all the rage lately with his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award wins for the HBO series, “Boardwalk Empire.”
more
By Kristina Rivera
|
3/30/11
|
The journalism class from Valley Stream Central High School got to enjoy a bit of a different experience on March 23. The class, led by Central English Chairman Dr. David Fritz, got to visit Richner Communications, home of the Valley Stream Herald, for a tour of the entire building.
more
By Matt Infield
|
3/30/11
|
A big smile showing off her pearly whites, that’s how Joanne Imbert, a Valley Stream Central High School senior, looked while signing a letter of intent on March 23 to run track and field at the University of Kentucky in the fall.
more
By Clarissa Hamlin
|
3/29/11
|