The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education kicked off the 2015-16 school year on July 14 by electing Skip Haile as president and Janet Goller as vice president. more

When ticking off the many and varied phys. ed. programs that Saul Lerner has brought to the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, you quickly realize what a profound and lasting impact he has had on the lives of thousands of students, his colleagues say. Among the programs are girls’ lacrosse, boys’ badminton, bicycling in gym classes, and first aid/cardiopulmonary resuscitation for all students, a program begun with the Merrick-based Robbie Levine Foundation, to name just a few. Lerner is the Central District’s director of physical education, health, athletics, driver’s education and adult education. After 19 years in the district and 35 years in education, Lerner, 58, will retire on June 30. “It’s been a great run,” he said during an interview last week, “and I loved every minute of it, and I love the community.” more

The teenager, a student at Calhoun High School, had a “severe case of alcohol poisoning,” said Calhoun Principal Nicole Hollings in an email to parents on June 12. He drank at a “large gathering” of Calhoun seniors in the woods between Brookside School and the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Hollings wrote. more

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is working on a plan that would allow most students to take algebra and earth science in eighth grade, if they wish, according to Superintendent John DeTommaso. more

Bellmore-Merrick Central District Superintendent John DeTommaso recently said the district’s 2015-16 spending plan has the potential to be “one of the best budgets in Bellmore-Merrick in the last 10 years,” noting that, if passed, it would restore previously cut teaching and administrative positions and reduce class sizes, particularly for special-education classes. more

Students in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s five schools are working to tie the community together — literally and figuratively. Thanks to the brainstorming of a Kennedy … more

On March 31, a crowd of roughly 150 people, mostly parents and teachers in Bellmore and Merrick, packed the auditorium at Brookside School in North Merrick for a forum on the state’s education policies. more

For a while on the morning of March 21, organizers of the first One Voice, One Message 5K Run/Walk, hosted by the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, wondered whether anyone would show. more

Bellmore-Merrick Central High School’s superintendent railed during a March 11 Board of Education meeting against the inability of Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature to reach a compromise over education aid. more

Taking on an almost human dimension, Kennedy High School’s new Cougar Walk of Recognition was born after nine months in development. Members of Bellmore JFK Alumni Inc., who created the walkway … more