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Hundreds more Rockville Centre students opted out this year than last year, bringing the total to 1,036.
RVC students ‘opt out’ in record numbers
More than 1,000 Rockville Centre students — 62 percent of third- through eighth-graders — refused to take the state English Language Arts assessments last week, far surpassing the number of “opt-outs” the district had last year. more
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Dr. Carol Burris spoke at a Common Core Education Forum last month. On April 13, she announced that she would be retiring early to focus all of her energies on fighting Common Core and the APPR.
Dr. Carol Burris to retire as SSHS principal
Dr. Carol Burris, the nationally recognized and award-winning principal of South Side High School for 15 years, announced last week that she would be retiring early to focus all of her time on … more
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More than 1,000 students — 60 percent of those testable — opted out of the state ELA test this year.
RVC opts out in record numbers
More than 1,000 Rockville Centre students — 60 percent of the testable school population — opted out of the New York State ELA test this week, shattering the record that the district had set last … more
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Minority student continuously underperformed on Regents exams compared to white students.
Sharp divide in test scores
Minority and poor students in Rockville Centre are continually under-performing compared with their white and wealthier peers, data recently released by New York state shows. The statistics come … more
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The AvalonBay complex houses close to 500 residents. But the facility doesn’t cause traffic problems on the street.
AvalonBay: doom and gloom that never came
By Alex Costello acostello@liherald.com The old Darby Drugs site on Banks Avenue was, for years, a toxic area that sat fallow. Developers came and went, but nothing happened with the property. … more
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Dr. William Johnson answered myriad questions from parents about how Rockville Centre schools were handling the new state curriculum and tests.
Rockville Centre School District holds Common Core forum
On Jan. 16, the Rockville Centre School District, in conjunction with the PTA Council, hosted a forum to address some of the most pressing questions that parents had about the Common Core, state … more
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District discusses I.B. in middle school
At its meeting on April 2, the Rockville Centre Board of Education discussed adding the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Program back into the budget and the South Side Middle School … more
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The expansion at Watson will add more classrooms and other instructional space to the cramped building.
Schools already moving forward
With the approval of the $45.9 million bond last week, the Rockville Centre School District is already starting the process of improving the buildings, with work scheduled to begin this summer. … more
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Rockville Centre Board of Education gets budget in line
At a meeting last week, the Rockville Centre Board of Education began finalizing the 2013-14 school budget, cutting $1.3 million in order to keep the increase in spending under the state-mandated … more
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A tougher Regents could be coming
With the new Common Core Standards being implemented, New York state seems in line to roll out new, more difficult Regents Exams in the next school year, making them more akin to Advance Placement … more
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