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Erica Messier collected data last week that showed a decline in the district’s test results in math and science.

Academic performance, infrastructure highlighted at school budget meeting

The Rockville Centre Board of Education held a preliminary budget hearing on April 12, and announced some changes to capital programs in the proposed spending plan. more

By Tom Carrozza | 4/21/22

Rockville Centre School District officials are hoping to add new sports teams, language courses and other implementations in the proposed 2022-23 budget.

Board of Education discusses proposed budget

Interim Superintendent Robert Bartels said at the March 24 Board of Education meeting that officials hope to make some additions to the curriculum in the 2022-23 school budget. more

By Tom Carrozza | 3/31/22

Gov. Kathy Hochul used statistical diagrams to support her decision to end the requirement for children to wear masks in schools and child care facilities.

Many Rockville Centre parents pleased that masks can come off in schools

Gov. Kathy Hochul an-nounced on Sunday that the state directive requiring children in schools and child care facilities to wear masks would end on Wednesday. more

By Reine Bethany and Mike Smollins | 3/3/22

Despite a ruling by a State Supreme Court judge against Gov. Kathy Hochul's mask mandate, many school districts, including Rockville Centre, will continue to require students and staff to wear masks until after there is a ruling on the state's appeal.

RVC schools to keep mask mandate

On Monday, a State Supreme Court judge in Nassau County ruled that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate was unconstitutional, leaving many parents of students in the Rockville Centre School District wondering how the ruling would affect their children. more

By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com | 1/27/22

Rockville Centre Schools Superintendent Robert Bartels.

Rockville Centre schools superintendent aims to avoid remote learning return

At the Jan. 13 Board of Education meeting, Acting Superintendent Robert Bartels said he believed that despite an increase in coronavirus cases across Nassau County due to the Omicron variant, students are better off learning in school instead of switching to a remote model. more

By Mike Smollins | 1/20/22

After parents and students expressed disappointment over a tentative plan for the annual Red and Blue competition in March, school officials said they were still mulling options on how to ensure safety while keeping the tradition alive, which includes coming up with a policy on spectators. At left, hundreds of people attended a past event.

Rockville Centre students, parents push for 'normal' Red and Blue

Rockville Centre school officials are mulling how to safely host the 106th annual Red and Blue event while staying true to its traditions amid the unpredictability of the continuing coronavirus pandemic. more

By Mike Smollins | 1/20/22

According to a separation agreement obtained by the Herald, Superintendent of Schools June Chang received three months’ salary and 24 paid vacation days when he left the district.

Details behind former Rockville Centre Superintendent June Chang's departure revealed

According to documents recently obtained by the Herald, former Rockville Centre Superintendent of Schools June Chang received three months’ salary and compensation for 24 vacation days in his separation agreement with the Board of Education, and agreed not to pursue any legal action against the district. more

By Mike Smollins | 12/9/21

Many parents — vaccinated and non-vaccinated — have expressed outrage over interim Superintendent Robert Bartels’s announcement that audiences will be separated based on vaccination status at the district’s winter concerts next month.

Outrage grows over concert vaccine issue in Rockville Centre schools

Several parents in the Rockville Centre School District have voiced their displeasure with school officials after they announced plans to separate vaccinated and unvaccinated audience members at next month’s winter concerts. more

By Mike Smollins | 11/24/21

June Chang will step down as superintendent of schools on Nov. 19.

Rockville Centre school board, Superintendent June Chang agree to part ways in November

The Rockville Centre Board of Education and outgoing Superintendent June Chang reached an agreement on Oct. 7 that will enable Chang to resign in November. more

By Mike Smollins | 10/14/21

Board of Education President John O’Shea advocated for stronger guidance services than were proposed in the budget.

Rockville Centre's Board of Education questions portions of school district's $120 million budget

Eliminating teaching assistants, cutting the frequency of a foreign language program in Rockville Centre’s elementary schools and using existing resources instead of expanding the district’s guidance department raised concerns from the Board of Education at a budget work session on April 4 at South Side High School. more

By Ben Strack | 4/11/19

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