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District 13 incumbent defeated
Voters approved all four Valley Stream school district budgets on Tuesday, and one of the two incumbent school board trustees lost their seat to a challenger.
The Valley Stream Central High School District budget received 1,609 yes votes and 644 no votes. Proposition 2, which includes capital reserves for additional building improvements, was approved with 1,675 yes votes to 582 no votes.
District 13’s budget received 922 yes votes and 349 no votes. Trustees Jeanne Greco Jacobs and William Stris ran against challengers Denise Diodato and Vincent Toma, respectively. Diodato unseated Greco Jacobs, 669 votes to 595. Stris defeated Toma by 20 votes — 647 to 627.
District 24 voters approved the district’s budget 391-152. Board of Education President Donna LaRocco ran unopposed. She received 452 votes.
The District 30 budget was approved with 384 yes votes to 106 no votes. Trustee James Lavery ran unopposed. He received 296 votes.
