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The Elmont Union Free School District’s Dutch Broadway Elementary School kicked off its 2011-2012 Parents As Reading Partners program on Oct. 21 with an interactive workshop and creative drama performance by Donna Washington, a professional storyteller, recording artist and author of four books, including “A Big Spooky House.”
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By Jackie Nash
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11/15/11
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While Elmont residents, the Shinnecock Indian Nation and Detroit developer Michael Malik have been anxiously anticipating the construction of a casino at Belmont Park for several months, for residents to the track’s north, living in the Village of Floral Park, the feeling’s not mutual — it’s not even close.
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By Jackie Nash
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11/2/11
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In a move celebrated by state school officials, a law was passed over the summer to help school districts cut bus costs and put those savings toward school programs, and local districts have just recently been able to take advantage of it.
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By Jackie Nash
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10/25/11
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School districts nationwide are required to deal with a growing problem: address fraud. Local schools are no exception. However, local districts have different approaches to catching students who are attending school illegally — and taking from taxpayers.
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By Jackie Nash
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10/19/11
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Wall Street has been occupied.
Thousands of Americans have built a small, self-sustaining shantytown in lower Manhattan where they eat, sleep and continue to protest wealth, corporate greed and Wall Street. Specifically, they have come together claiming that “1 percent of the population … has destroyed this nation and its values through their greed.”
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10/13/11
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Last week I wrote about Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s 2012 budget proposal, one that actively seeks to reduce Nassau County’s work force by an additional 700 employees. Mangano’s call for concessions by union leaders was met by steep opposition and what he referred to as “juvenile” criticism by labor leaders.
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10/6/11
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By ALEX COSTELLO
Last week, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced a plan to close a projected deficit of more than $300 million in the 2012 budget through layoffs and reforms, bringing …
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Alex Costello
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9/21/11
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Students from the Sewanhaka Central High, Franklin Square Union Free and Elmont Union Free school districts all entered new classrooms on Sept. 7, for the 2011-12 school year.
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By Jackie Nash
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9/13/11
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Before students in the Sewanhaka Central High, Franklin Square Union Free and Elmont Union Free school districts headed back to school for the 2011-12, state test scores assessing 3rd- to 8th-grade students’ English Language Arts and math scores from the 2010-11 school year were released. Locally, the results — released by the New York State Education Department in August — vary widely.
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By Jackie Nash
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9/13/11
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Students from the Sewanhaka Central High, Franklin Square Union Free and Elmont Union Free school districts will enter their new classrooms today, Sept. 7. So what’s in store for the 2011-12 school year?
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By Jackie Nash
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9/1/11
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