The Jets’ old, dark-green scoreboard still stands in a dirt field at the team’s former training camp on Hofstra University’s north campus. “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare,” it reads. Call it a monument to the past, which will soon be removed to make way for the future –– a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School, which was founded in 2008 and welcomed its first class of 40 in 2011. The $39.5 million project, funded in part with a $14.5 million state grant, will more than double the size of the medical school. more

At the W.T. Clarke High School graduation, which will take place on the school’s football field on June 23, seniors Daniel Wang and Alexander Evangelatos will deliver speeches in front of their peers, families and teachers. In October, the pair were named the top two in their class — Wang as valedictorian and Evangelatos as salutatorian. more

The East Meadow boys’ track and field team wrapped up another successful season under coach Jim McGlynn, finishing with an 8-4 conference record, and boasting two county champions in Kyle Bettex and Bradley Kaufmann. more

Young artists at Woodland Middle School recently completed their latest masterpiece, a mural depicting the American Theater Dance Workshop in New Hyde Park. The mural is a painting of ballet dancer Brooke Leventhal, a Woodland student, while surrounded on stage by fellow dancers and a large audience. The mural was drawn by roughly 20 students in Dr. John Healy’s art class. more

North Merrick School District Superintendent David Feller will become president of the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents on June 1. With the position, he will also assume a spot on the Commissioner’s Advisory Council of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, which meets three to four times a year with the New York State Education Department commissioner, currently Dr. John King Jr. more

The Nassau County Class AA softball championship series is headed to a third and deciding game. more

Three incumbents are running uncontested for reelection to the East Meadow School District’s Board of Education. Board President Joseph Parisi, Jeffrey Rosenking, and Marcee Rubinstein, who all currently serve on the board, are each seeking three-year terms during this year’s election. more

A video montage showed photographs from the early life of Richard Novarro, leading to his days as a teacher at Barnum Woods Elementary School. Accompanying the photos were quotes from Novarro, to the tune of “All the Things You Are” — a song he selected for graduation when his students walked the stage. By the time the nearly 10-minute video was over, there were few dry eyes in the room. more

Parents taking part in a movement spreading across Long Island have refused to let their children sit for state-mandated testing, protesting academic standards that they say have become unrealistically challenging. more

“Homecoming” usually conjures images of colorful parade floats and hard-fought football games, but for the students, faculty and staff of East Rockaway and Lawrence high schools, the term has a more basic meaning: the return to their respective school buildings after months of repair following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. more