About 50 high school students came to the Nov. 3 Valley Stream school board committee meeting to try to persuade the board to continue letting them leave campus in their cars during lunch periods.
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Anthony Bottan
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11/11/09
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Long Beach High School has a new addition to fall sports. Since last year, after playing in gym and after participating in the Badminton for Breast Cancer Tournament, a group of students had an urge …
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JENNIFER ZARATE
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10/22/09
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Students at Lynbrook’s West End School experienced the democratic process first-hand when they participated in Student Council elections.
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10/22/09
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After the television show “Inside Edition” aired an episode last March underscoring the risks of students driving during school days, officials in the Valley Stream Central High School District began reevaluating its own student-driving policy.
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Anthony Bottan
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10/8/09
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The next Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New York Times may be roaming the halls of Long Beach High School. He or she may just be sitting in room 214, attending Joe Jeremias's fourth-period journalism class.
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ARIELLA MONTI
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9/24/09
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A fourth-grade teacher tells me this story:
She advises an after-school club for children who want to work on a special project for a science fair. She can only accept 10 students, and she chooses those who step up first with their plans. They set a due date for completion. Part of the project requires the students to interview a science teacher and write up the Q & A.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/17/09
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The quick thinking of three teens helped save the lives of an elderly couple that were fast asleep early Monday morning as their Lynbrook home caught fire. Now, the three youths are being heralded as heroes.
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Mary Malloy
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8/27/09
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