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I am Father Richard J. Rock, campus minister for athletics at St. John’s University. I have known Dr. Nancy Kaplan for more than 30 years, and work closely with her in support of our students. I was delighted to learn that she was seeking to remain on the Board of Education, a position that she has held for the past 14 years. I could not think of a better way for Nancy to apply her professional and personal interests. more
Four incumbents and one newcomer are running for election to the Merricks’ school boards this year, and they are just about certain to win. All are running unopposed. more
Third- to sixth-grade students in the Merrick School District now receive Spanish instruction for 45 minutes every six school days. Soon, however, they may learn the meaning of “no mas.” more
Three women received awards from the North Merrick School District and State Assemblyman David McDonough at last week’s North Merrick Board of Education meeting for their actions on Sept. 11 this year, when a Camp Avenue Elementary School aide went into sudden cardiac arrest. more
The Merrick Board of Education on Sept. 9 approved school tax exemptions for local veterans, ending months of rancor that followed the board’s choice last winter to miss a deadline to pass the exemptions for the 2014-15 school year. more
The Merrick Board of Education will vote in three months whether to grant community veterans school tax breaks, board members told a group of veterans, including leaders of Merrick’s American Legion Post 1282, at the board’s May 13 meeting. more
The state comptroller’s office reviewed 2,969 checks the North Merrick School District wrote and 123 wire transfers it made between 2011 and 2013 and found wrong names on all of them. more
The Merrick Board of Education unanimously agreed on March 5 to authorize the school district to spend as much as $200,000 to implement several new security measures in the district’s three schools, based on the recommendations of two private security companies. more
The Merrick Board of Education last week approved a measure to hire a security consulting firm to conduct a security audit at the district’s three elementary schools, but fell one vote short of passing a separate measure to hire a firm that would have provided private, unarmed guards at the schools. more
The Merrick Board of Education and the district’s teachers have agreed to terms of a renewed contract. The three-year pact will take effect for the 2012-13 school year and end after the 2014-2015 school year. more
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