School Boards Association honors Herald editor/columnist

The Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association, representing boards of education from across Long Island, honored Bellmore/Merrick Herald Senior Editor Scott Brinton with its Friend of Education Award on Wednesday at a dinner at the Woodbury Country Club. In bestowing the honor, the association cited Brinton’s “insightful coverage of education issues” in his column, which appears biweekly on the op-ed page of all 12 editions of the Herald. Mary Jo O’Hagan, president of the Baldwin Board of Education and Nassau vice president of the School Boards Association, presented the honor.

“As a columnist, your first hope is always that someone will read your work,” Brinton said. “Then, of course, you hope that someone will like what you have written. I am deeply honored that the members of the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association like what I have to say.”

Roger Tilles, regent of the University of the State of New York, and Timothy Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, spoke at the dinner on “the promise and reality of education reform.”