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New Lawrence Woodmere Academy Headmaster Brian O’Connell with teacher Kelly Sharpe, lower left, and LWA summer camp Director Candice Morgenlander at the school’s holiday party on Dec. 11.

After a difficult beginning to 2019, Lawrence Woodmere Academy is rebounding as the year ends with the dual announcements of a new headmaster and an effort to establish a sister school in China that is scheduled to open next September more

By Jeff Bessen | 12/19/19

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research gained $8,545 as Hewlett High alumna Elissa Candiotti and Josh Candiotti after the NYC Marathon.

HAFTR juniors are named CIJE contest finalists

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School juniors Ari Gurvitch, Ben Sides and Jacob Steinmetz were finalists in the second annual Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Tank competition on Nov. 24, sponsored by the CIJE. more

By Jeff Bessen | 12/5/19

The Lawrence School District is considering selling the former Number Five School in Cedarhurst that for the past five years has been leased to the Shulamith School.

Lawrence School District considers selling the Number 5 School

With renovations of Lawrence High School on the horizon, the Lawrence Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution on Nov. 18 declaring the school district’s intention to sell the former Number Five School... more

By Jeff Bessen | 11/29/19

Lawrence Middle School students who have a 90 percent or higher attendance rate have a greater chance of succeeding in the classroom, experts say. At left, Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen greeted students on the first day of school.

Attendance high in Five Towns schools

Eighty percent of success in life is just showing up, Woody Allen once said, and nowhere is that more true than in school. more

By Jeff Bessen | 10/24/19

Terrence Batts conducting the Lawrence High School orchestra in 2015. He said he was kept out of Honors classes as a student in the 1960s and ’70s, despite his clear academic abilities. Many students of color, he said, are automatically placed in lower-track classes, without regard to what he calls “intellectual heft.”

Reshaping class discussion on race and culture

Part three in a series. The New York State Education Department launched a new statewide curriculum in May intended to root out implicit bias and racism in all its forms in the schools while affirming students’ “racial, linguistic and cultural identities.” more

By Jeff Bessen and Briana Bonfiglio | 10/17/19

Leia Cohen, 10, and Benjamin Abramov, 7, showed their climbing skills on the rock wall.

Brandeis celebrates a new school year

The Brandeis School held its annual welcome back celebration sponsored by the Lawrence school’s Parents Association with... more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/19/19

Hewlett-Woodmere School District Superintendent Dr. Ralph Marino, center left, said the district needed to do more to effectively address mental health issues among students.

Student’s death prompts hard questions in Hewlett-Woodmere

In response to the death of a student five days earlier, a dozen residents addressed topics including vaping, code-of-conduct policies and possible mental health initiatives at the Hewlett-Woodmere School District Board of Education’s work meeting on Sept. 11. more

By Matthew Ferremi | 9/19/19

Lawrence High School graduate Amil Virani strikes a blow for young people as the only teenager attending district Board of Education meetings on a regular basis.

Lawrence High graduate advancing his placement in civic involvement

There are not many taxpaying adults that have children in the Lawrence School District and attend the nearly monthly Board of Education meetings, let alone recent high school graduates, but Amil Virani, who graduated Lawrence High this year, does. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/12/19

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, in Woodmere, has partnered with the Lawrence School District on the Shaar Lev after-school program.

Educating Jewish youth

A pilot program that provides religious instruction to Jewish children with special needs, launched last school year as a partnership between the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach and the Lawrence School District, will be expanded to cover the entire school year beginning this month. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/5/19

Mesivta Ateres Yaakov High School Head of School, Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, center, said his school does not need oversight from the state on how to educate its students. To his left was State Assemblywoman Melissa Miller and in the back Councilman Bruce Blakeman.

Five Towns officials oppose State Education Department private school guidelines

Outside of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov High School in Lawrence on Aug. 29, several local Republican elected officials encouraged residents to make their thoughts known to the State Education Department for their proposed “Substantially Equivalent Instruction for Nonpublic School Students.” more

By Matthew Ferremi | 8/29/19

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