Six candidates are vying for a seat on the Merrick School District Board of Education. Get to know them before casting your mail-in vote on June 9.
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6/1/20
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By executive order last Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo reset the school budget and trustees election statewide to Tuesday, June 9. Every voter will receive an absentee ballot with a postage-paid envelope …
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By Scott Brinton
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5/4/20
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33 New York colleges pledge prospective students will not be penalized for anti-gun violence walkout
With high school students on Long Island and nationwide preparing to walk out of school on Wednesday in protest of gun violence, more than 200 colleges and universities have pledged students’ admission prospects will not be affected by any discipline they face at their schools for participating.
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By Erik Hawkins
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3/12/18
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It is probably among the nation’s most thankless jobs –– Board of Education trustee. School board members spend untold hours . . .
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10/27/16
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Susan Schwartz, an elementary school teacher who served on the Merrick School District Board of Education for 15 years and the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education for eight years, will retire from the boards at the end of June.
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6/17/15
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Four incumbents and one newcomer are running for election to the Merricks’ school boards this year, and they are just about certain to win. All are running unopposed.
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5/13/15
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Since April is National Volunteer Month, let’s consider what volunteering really is: a vital part of every community . . .
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4/16/15
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Tis the season of tax levies, enrollment projections and capital reserve funds. It’s school budget time . . .
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2/25/15
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Merrick School District trustees said in May that they would put tax breaks for community veterans to a vote on Aug. 12, but the board has postponed the vote another 28 days to Sept. 9.
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By Brian Racow
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8/27/14
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With the gridlock in Washington, and the latest scandal involving Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged meddling in the work of the commission he created to help root out corruption in Albany, it’s too easy to think that “government” — and government shenanigans — are something far away, either up the Hudson or down I-95.
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7/30/14
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