State taxpayers remain mostly blinded by educational obfuscations like the high school graduation rate.
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By Mark Nolan
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3/9/23
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The Chestnut Street School in West Hempstead has a new leader — temporarily.
Lisa Minicozzi was named the elementary school’s interim principal during the Jan. 17 board of education …
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By Mark Nolan
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1/26/23
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When I was in high school in the Bronx in the 1960s, they didn’t let us use calculators on tests. They hadn’t invented them yet.
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By Alan Singer
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11/10/22
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Summers are for beaches, barbecues and outdoor concerts. But for Faye, every day of her summers during her college years was spent inside a hot factory . . .
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9/1/22
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Maria Conzatti has two major goals for the next 12 months: To have Nassau Community College “live” the word “community,” and to serve that community through a number of new …
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By Karina Kovac
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8/18/22
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s plan to allow U.S. veterans to teach in Florida classrooms is a terrific concept — if and when the veterans earn bachelor’s degrees and complete teacher training programs.
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8/11/22
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Calling all lawyers: We need you back in law school, now. We need you in classrooms and clinics, in person and on Zoom.
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By Sara J. Berman
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6/23/22
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Residents in Malverne and West Hempstead will have the opportunity to vote on their school budgets and board of education candidates on Tuesday.
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By Jake Pellegrino
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5/12/22
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If you have children or grandchildren, you likely think about them all the time. You imagine them smiling and laughing . . .
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3/24/22
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These days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water.
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3/3/22
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