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The Merrick School District recently took part in National Foreign Language Week. Students in grades three to six, all of whom are taking Spanish, voluntarily participated in the national "Spread Your Wings: Learn a New Language" poster and essay contest.
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3/5/10
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is looking at a 3.58 percent increase in its 2010-11 operating budget when compared to the current year, meaning expenditures would jump from roughly $122 million to $127.3 million.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently completed audits of New York’s 733 public school districts and BOCES. The audits were part of a series of legislation following a scandal in the Roslyn School District in which administrators embezzled $11 million.
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2/25/10
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Owing to possible blizzard-like conditions, all classes and activities in all five Bellmore-Merrick area school districts have been canceled on Wednesday, Feb. 10. On Tuesday evening, weather prognosticators were predicting more than a half-foot of snow, prompting the cancellations.
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2/9/10
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All around, Merrick and North Merrick students and school staff members are pulling together to help earthquake victims in Haiti. Below, find out what is being done to help.
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Sari Zeidler
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2/4/10
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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials are weighing whether to eliminate summer school in 2010 owing to $2.2million in potential cuts to the district’s state aid package.
The cuts, if approved by the state Legislature, would reduce Bellmore-Merrick’s total aid by nearly 12 percent.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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Federal stimulus money allowed Bellmore-Merrick school districts to patch holes in their budgets caused by state aid cuts last spring, but that may not be the case entirely this year. In December, the cash-strapped state used part of its 2010-11 federal stimulus money to prevent midyear reductions in state aid for education in the current school year, said Matt Anderson, a state Budget Office spokesman.
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Deirdre Krasula
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1/26/10
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North Merrick Board of Education Trustee John Pinto called on board members to rescind money from the district's accrued liability reserve fund for employee benefits at a Jan. 12 public meeting, a move that the district's legal counsel warned could land board members in jail.
The accrued liability reserve fund for employee benefits is used
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Sari Zeidler
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1/22/10
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The North Merrick School District Board of Education voted four to two, with one abstention, to ratify a new four-year teachers' contract at a Jan. 13. public meeting.
Prior to the meeting, contracts in the district were expired since 2008.
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by Sari Zeidler
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1/13/10
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Following two public suicides by students in the past year, residents expressed concern at the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District last week and asked school officials to consider measures the district could take to educate students about the issues surrounding suicide.
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by Scott Brinton
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1/12/10
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