Rockville Centre's five school board trustees voted unanimously to accept a State Environmental Quality Review Act study that concluded that the proposed renovations of South Side High School would have “no significant adverse environmental impact.”
The vote paved the way for the board to authorize, also unanimously, a special district meeting on Thursday, Dec. 17, for the public to vote on the proposed $31.8 million bond issue referendum. Ballots will be cast that day, in the South Side High School gym, between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
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by Judy Rattner
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10/29/09
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The Rockville Centre school district learned last week that it has successfully challenged a lawsuit filed over the winter by Nassau County Legislator Roger Corbin to shift the payment of real estate tax refunds from Nassau County to school districts and other local entities.
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By Judy Ratner
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10/22/09
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Gov. David Paterson’s dire warning last week of a $5 billion deficit in the state budget over the next two years, and his plans to address it, drew a swift — and negative —response from local officials. The governor’s plan calls for a $3 billion reduction in state spending in the current fiscal year, ending March 30, and includes a reduction in state aid to schools by about $690 million.
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by Judy Rattner
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10/22/09
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On Oct. 1, 25 students were inducted into South Side High School’s newly-established chapter of the New York State Science Honor Society.
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10/22/09
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On the board
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10/22/09
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Science researchers at South Side High School were busy this summer investigating a variety of problems ranging from health and medicine to producing green energy. Some even came up with environmentally friendly plastics that take less space in our landfills. While high school seniors are consumed with developing and submitting college essays and applications during the fall, Science Research students have the added task of submitting papers for the Siemens-Westinghouse Science Competition.
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10/22/09
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I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010.
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Scott Brinton
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10/22/09
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At their first opportunity to comment on the proposed multi-million-dollar renovation of South Side High School, Rockville Centre residents voiced mixed reactions — ranging from characterizing the debt service to pay for it as “a runaway train” to a thank-you for putting the “very important” issue of the community's responsibility for the safety and health of its students before district residents.
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by Judy Rattner
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10/22/09
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It was an evening of food, music and camaraderie as students, parents and South Side High School faculty gathered in the auditorium of the village’s Recreation Center on Oct. 13 to kick off the school's new 180-member Best Buddies Club, with 12 special education students meeting their specially matched peer “buddies.”
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Judy Rattner
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10/22/09
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On the board
Board of Education Public Work Session, Oct. 13, 8:30 p.m. in the Administration building.
Board of Education Meeting, Oct. 20, 8:30 p.m. in the South Side High School …
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10/8/09
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