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The Festival Symphonic Orchestra performed at the event. after each student advanced through a district-wide auditions process.
High school music festival entertains and funds scholarships
The Central High School District hosted its 59th annual District Music Festival on March 11, the proceeds of which went toward funding scholarships for several exceptional music students. more
School districts advance in 2016-17 budget process
This week the high school district adopted a $111 million budget proposal, District 30 revised its proposed tax levy, and District 24 hosted a community forum to discuss the possibility of piercing the tax cap. more
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North High School students made more than 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to be distributed at the Interfaith Nutrition Network in Hempstead.
Students make 1,000 sandwiches for hungry
Members of North High School’s National Honor Society and English as a New Language Buddy Program collaborated to assemble more than 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for distribution at the Interfaith Nutrition Network in Hempstead. more
VSCHSD transportation deadline is April 1
The Valley Stream Central High School District offers free transportation to nonpublic schools that meet certain requirements. more
High schools boast 95 percent graduation rate
The Central High School District’s 2015 graduation rate was 95 percent, nearly 20 percentage points higher than the statewide rate, according to the New York State Education Department. “Our … more
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Get involved in the school budget process
In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent. more
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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Dr. Stephen Dewey answered Bellmore-Merrick parents’ and residents’ questions about the effects that drugs have on the mind.
The teenage brain on drugs
The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant. Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up. And, he has found, it isn’t pretty. more
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Residency committee to meet on Nov. 23
The Valley Stream Central High School District will hold its annual Residency Advisory Committee meeting on Monday, Nov. 23 at 8:30 a.m. in the District Office Board Room, at 1 Kent Road. more
Dr. Robert Dillon, right, with Nassau BOCES Board President Eric Schultz, was installed as the organization’s superintendent on Aug. 20.
Dr. Robert Dillon installed as BOCES sup't
Nassau BOCES installed former East Meadow School District Superintendent Dr. Robert Dillon as its new district superintendent at a board meeting on Aug. 20. more
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