The Nassau County Legislature voted 11-8 to approve County Executive Ed Mangano’s $2.6 billion budget on Saturday night, following a contentious, two-day public hearing in Mineola that turned …
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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11/3/10
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“Just when you think everything’s going well,” said school Superintendent Dr. William Johnson of new testing guidelines recently issued by the New York State Education Department, “it’s not.”
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Judy Rattner
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10/6/10
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It was back to school for Rockville Centre students on Tuesday, as a fleet of bright yellow school buses and legions of parents took their children to school on what otherwise would have been a sunny — and quiet — late-summer day.
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Judy Rattner
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9/8/10
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Last week, New York state won nearly $700 million in federal Race to the Top money, which it will use for education.
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Alex Costello
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9/1/10
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South Side High School has again been ranked among the top 100 high schools in the country in the annual list compiled by Newsweek magazine, which was released over the weekend.
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Katherine Kollitides and Judy Rattner
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6/16/10
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Voters in the Rockville Centre school district have approved the 2010-11 school budget of $93.4 million. In unofficial results Tuesday night, the spending plan passed with 2,483 votes, 55 percent of the votes cast, while 2,027 residents voted against it. Despite periods of heavy rain during the day, district officials said the voter turnout was the heaviest since 2006.
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Judy Rattner
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5/18/10
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Rockville Centre school Superintendent Dr. William Johnson said there was “not a whole lot to say” about the proposed 2010-11 spending plan of $93.5 million that if adopted by the Board of Education, will go to a vote on May 18.
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4/14/10
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n remarks during the March 24 school board meeting, Superintendent Dr. William Johnson reiterated that the preliminary 2010-11 budget of $93.5 million is a "a preservation budget," meaning it keeps all programs in place this year that are operating efficiently. If adopted by the board, it will go to the public in a May 18 vote.
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Judy Rattner
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3/31/10
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On March 25, a year since the first hearings on the subject, the Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency accepted the application of developer AvalonBay Communities for a tax abatement for its proposed 349-unit apartment complex in Rockville Centre.
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Alex Costello
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3/31/10
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As it stands now, Rockville Centre school district administrators say a proposed 2010-11 spending plan could include an increase of 3.89 percent over the voter-approved 2009-10 budget of just over $90 million.
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Judy Rattner
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3/17/10
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