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The state mediator requested by the West Hempstead Board of Education to facilitate contract negotiations with the teachers’ union failed to accomplish that task. Instead, the board …
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Lee Landor
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10/27/10
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If you have been reading my articles, you know that storm-drain runoff is one of many factors that have negatively affected Long Island’s Great South Bay. The declining clam population has also …
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Steven Trezza
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10/20/10
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Following rallies by West Hempstead teachers working without a contract since June 2009, the West Hempstead Educators Association met with the district school board last week in a five-hour mediated …
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Lee Landor
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10/6/10
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It’s been a year and nearly three months since the West Hempstead school district’s contract with the West Hempstead Educators Association expired. It’s been six months since the …
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Lee Landor
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9/29/10
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Six weeks have passed since the Aug. 9 fire that nearly burned down the George Washington Elementary School annex and sent its superintendent to the hospital, and things have gone back to normal in …
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Lee Landor
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9/22/10
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In a move that has confounded local school officials and is bound to confuse and upset many parents, State Education Department leaders recently announced that they were raising the raw scores that determine proficiency levels on the standardized tests taken by students in third through eighth grades.
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8/12/10
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Test scores fell throughout New York and across Long Island after the State Education Department effectively raised the bar at all grade levels in an effort to better prepare students for higher …
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Lee Landor
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8/4/10
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My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/10
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As a busy New York City wife, mother and attorney, Stephanie Bhonslay was searching for ways to spend quality time with her family. Gardening came to mind. Her concept grew into an idea for a business: providing personal coaching in the joy and know-how of gardening.
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Teri-Ann Loeser
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5/14/10
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I was a teacher for years, so I know firsthand the challenges of the classroom, and I continue to be in awe of those who inspire the children they teach and honor the profession they have chosen.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/30/10
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