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Sometime between when third- to eighth-grade students took state English Language Arts tests at the beginning of April and when they took state math tests four weeks later, some Merrick and North Merrick parents decided that enough was enough.
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By Brian Racow
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5/23/14
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The cowgirls and cowboys of North Merrick’s Camp Avenue Elementary School threw a hoedown for local senior citizens on May 15.
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5/22/14
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5/16/14
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The North Merrick School District Board of Education this month adopted a budget for next school year that will, if approved by the community in the school vote on May 20, sustain level funding for most of the district’s functions and programs, according to Superintendent David Feller.
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By Brian Racow
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5/15/14
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Endorsing the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District budget is, for us, a no-brainer.
The district’s 2014-15 budget is set to rise by 1.97 percent, from $136.5 million this year to a little more than $139 million next year. And, despite a lower-than-hoped-for state aid increase of $200,000, the district does not plan to cut services for students. In fact, it is restoring some services such as BOCES dance, which had been cut during the leanest years of the 2008-09 recession and its aftermath.
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5/15/14
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The North Merrick School District announced in March that each of its schools — Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road — had qualified for a $75,000 “Reward School Dissemination Grant” from the state Education Department due to their students’ high performance on state assessment tests in 2011 and 2012.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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The state comptroller’s office reviewed 2,969 checks the North Merrick School District wrote and 123 wire transfers it made between 2011 and 2013 and found wrong names on all of them.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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When New York state debuted new standardized tests for third- to eighth-graders in English and math last year, a handful of Merrick parents told school administrators that they would not allow their children to take them. Earlier this month, the number of students whose parents have joined this protest nearly doubled at Merrick Avenue Middle School, more than doubled in the North Merrick School District and more than tripled in the Merrick School District.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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The guiding philosophy of the North Merrick School District’s theatre arts program is, in a word, “inclusiveness,” according to Joyce Kelley, a sixth-grade teacher at Fayette School and the program’s director, choreographer and co-founder.
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By Brian Racow
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3/19/14
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Residents of the 8th State Senate District, which stretches along the South Shore from Baldwin to Lindenhurst, do not now have a representative in the New York State Legislature’s upper chamber. This troubles some as Albany legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo negotiate this month over how the state will allocate its more than $100 billion budget.
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By Brian Racow
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3/5/14
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