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It is probably among the nation’s most thankless jobs –– Board of Education trustee. School board members spend untold hours . . .
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10/27/16
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Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time.
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10/13/16
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For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . .
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9/15/16
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A plan to transform an underused basketball court on the grounds of Clara H. Carlson Elementary School, in Elmont, by professional soccer team the New York Cosmos has failed to reach its funding …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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Gary Johnson? Who is this guy, you ask? He is the most prominent of the alternative candidates who will be joining Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton . . .
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6/9/16
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Nassau Community College is something of an oasis in the county’s heavily developed and industrialized hub. Venerable sycamore and maple trees line its narrow roads. In its center is . . .
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6/9/16
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The filing deadline for Oceanside school board candidates has been reopened after Austin Graff, who was running against incumbent Michael D’Ambrosio for the board, dropped out of the race on April …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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5/4/16
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Christine M. Riordan, Ph.D., was inaugurated as Adelphi University's 10th president on Friday, March 11, the first woman to lead the University in its 120-year history.More than 800 members of the …
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3/11/16
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March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . .
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3/3/16
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In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent.
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1/21/16
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