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The Lawrence High School varsity football team had to forfeit its Sept. 18 game because unvaccinated members were required to quarantine due to close contact with a positive Covid case.

The Lawrence High School Golden Tornadoes varsity football team was forced to forfeit its Sept. 18 road game vs. Friends Academy because the team, except for vaccinated members, had to quarantine due to a positive Covid-19 case, Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen said. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/19/21

Fifth-graders Mia Costa, Abigail Kurtz, Myla Williams and Alessandra Tetsoti sang the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ at the ceremony.

Hewlett Elementary School remembers the patriots

It was too eerie for people who experienced 9/11, 2 0 years ago. The day was identical to Sept. 11, 2001. Beautiful blue sky and bright sunshine as Hewlett Elementary School students — second through fifth grade — paraded out of the building for the annual Patriot Day commemoration, on Sept. 10, one day before the actual day the terrorist attacks occurred two decades ago. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/16/21

Hewlett High School graduates Max Seibald, left, Eytan Saperstein and Steve DeNapoli at a combined Hewlett, Israel national team and New York Lizards lacrosse clinic at the school in 2014.

Hewlett Athletic Hall of Fame inducts two

Two former Hewlett High School athletes who made their mark in two sports will be inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame at a ceremony before the Bulldogs’ Homecoming game against Valley Stream North on Saturday. more

By Lisa Margaria | 9/16/21

Teacher Susan Hurwitz, left, and school psychologist Stephanie Bezalel, right, were congratulated by Lawrence Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen for earning tenure.

Lawrence returns to in-person only instruction

Making official what has been known and now mandated by the new governor, Lawrence School District Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen said that when the school doors opened on Thursday, students, teachers and staff will be wearing masks. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/2/21

Hewlett High School students at the intersection of Broadway and Everit Avenue as they headed to Hewlett High School on Sept. 1.

Welcome back, Five Towns schools reopen

The confusion, utter joy and comfort with the familiar were all on display at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach in Woodmere on Sept. 1, the first day of school. more

By Jeff Bessen | 9/1/21

This year Five Towns students will only need masks inside the school buildings. Last year Christian Paulino, Lawrence School District’s now director of student affairs, checked in the walk-up Lawrence High students.

Five Towns schools await state Covid guidance

After months of awaiting requirements for school operations from the New York State Department of Health and State Education Department, the school districts and schools in the Five Towns received the needed guidance and have developed reopening plans. more

By Lisa Margaria | 8/26/21

Great Neck resident Rabbi Nissan Goldberg, who has learned and worked in the Five Towns, is The Brandeis School’s new rabbi.

Brandeis in Lawrence welcomes new rabbi

With more than 20 years of educational experience and familiarity with the Five Towns, Rabbi Nissan Goldberg has joined The Brandeis School mishpacha – which means family in Hebrew – bringing his unconventional learning methods. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/26/21

The Five Towns-based Independent Coach Corporation is one of many school bus companies that are having a difficult time finding drivers.

Five Towns schools could be impacted by bus driver shortage

The shortage of school bus drivers in New York state that began nearly four years ago and that now stretches across the country has continued throughout, and been deepened by, the coronavirus pandemic. Five Towns school districts are concerned, and bus companies are aggressively recruiting drivers. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/26/21

Reading was the primary theme of the Lawrence School District’s Mid-Summer Check-In event on Aug. 10. From left were Lawrence Primary School Principal Kristen Mcloughlin, Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen, Lawrence Early Childhood Center Principal Lisa Tariq and Lawrence Middle School Principal Willis Perry.

Lawrence schools, they’re making reading cool

A teacher once told a classroom full of seventh-graders that if they could read, they could rule the world. The Lawrence School District’s goals might not be quite as lofty, but it plans to ensure that its students — from kindergartners to high school seniors — can read and are reading. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/19/21

The State Education Department announced on Thursday, after this aricle went to press, that districts must develop their own reopening plans. Above, Lawrence High School Principal Jennifer Lagnado-Papp checked a student’s health form on the first day of school last year.

New York State Education Department says district develop their own reopening plans

With schools expected to reopen in roughly five weeks, preparations for a new educational year are in flux, as the two public school districts and yeshivas in the Five Towns await State Education Department guidelines amid an apparently re-strengthening coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, after this article went to press: Districts must develop their own reopening plans, state officials saidy, surprising local educators who eagerly had been awaiting guidance on the school year. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/5/21

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