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The Rockville Centre Education Foundation is organized to provide support and funding to villageschools. This funding is not easily acquired—detailed grant proposals are judged by a foundation …
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10/29/09
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The Rockville Centre Council of PTA honored members of the Rockville Centre Board of Education during a break in the Oct. 20 regular board meeting. The group provided home-baked dessert delicacies …
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10/29/09
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The smell of freshly cut cedar filled the air outside the Francis F. Wilson Elementary School on Oct. 22 as faculty, staff and students gathered to unveil the newest addition to the school: a …
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by Alex Costello
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10/29/09
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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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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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