Throughout the last two budget seasons, the West Hempstead school district has excessed nearly 85 positions, including administrators, teachers, clerical staff and coaches. It altered its academic …
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By Lee Landor
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3/9/11
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The West Hempstead school district’s contentious facilities-use policy remains unresolved, even after a four-hour policy session during which people on both sides of the aisle aired their …
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By Lee Landor and Svenja van den Woldenberg
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2/16/11
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Want to know what the West Hempstead Board of Education is up to? Well, they want you to know.
At a special business meeting on Jan. 25, board member Cynthia Di Miceli raised the possibility of …
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By Lee Landor
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2/2/11
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Soccer has caused a stir in West Hempstead, and some residents feel they’ve been kicked in the face.
The West Hempstead Chiefs Soccer Club lost enough members over the summer to disable two …
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By Lee Landor
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1/12/11
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The West Hempstead Board of Education recently voted down a request by the commissioners of the West Hempstead and Lakeview fire districts that their members receive patrial school-tax exemptions, …
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Lee Landor
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1/5/11
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Much like their West Hempstead counterparts, teachers in the Malverne school district are getting antsy about working with an expired contract.
Whereas the West Hempstead teachers’ union …
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By Lee Landor
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12/22/10
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Hofstra University awarded the West Hempstead school district $200 for submitting a student essay on “Celebrating Suburban Diversity” to its high school writing contest, co-sponsored with …
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Lee Landor
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12/2/10
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Malverne taxpayers passed Propositions 1 and 2 on Tuesday, effectively approving a $14.1 million educational and facilities bond put forth by the Malverne Union Free School District's Board of …
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Lee Landor
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11/16/10
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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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