Two members of the Rockville Centre community are being honored for their efforts to identify and fight discrimination.
ERASE Racism announced that Dr. William Johnson and Lawrence Levy are …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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4/27/16
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The field at Watson Elementary School has been closed after parents complained that they were finding chunks of brick and asphalt on the field.
Watson parents gathered at the Board of Education …
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By Alex Costello
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4/13/16
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Nearly two-thirds of eligible Rockville Centre School District students sat out the English Language Arts state assessments in grades 3 through 8 last week, mirroring numbers that the district saw …
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By Alex Costello
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4/13/16
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With only some cuts, the Rockville Centre School District managed to close a nearly $1 million hole in its proposed 2016-17 budget.
At a meeting on March 22, Superintendent Dr. William Johnson …
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By Alex Costello
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3/30/16
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On March 14, the Rockville Centre Council of PTAs sponsored a forum to give parents a chance to ask school administrators questions about the future of education in the district.
Led by …
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By Alex Costello
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3/23/16
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The Rockville Centre Board of Education continued its budget talks last week, but made no moves to close the nearly $1 million funding gap its facing.
The board, meeting on March 9, began talks …
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By Alex Costello
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3/16/16
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The Rockville Centre School District will be using scanning-type voting machines for the first time for its budget vote in May.
The machines, which voters should be familiar with from other …
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By Alex Costello
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3/2/16
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Because of the complaints it has received from many parents, South Side Middle School plans to change the way it chooses students for the annual eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C.
The trip has …
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By Alex Costello
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1/27/16
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Last week, the State Education Department released official graduation rates for schools across New York, and South Side High School was once again one of the best in the state.
In the 2015-14 …
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By Alex Costello
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1/20/16
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In its final report issued last Thursday, Governor Cuomo’s Common Core Task Force called on the state to place a four-year moratorium on the use of students’ state test scores to evaluate …
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By Scott Brinton
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12/16/15
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