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Signs warn motorists as they approach the video enforcement zone outside Camp Avenue Elementary School on Merrick Avenue in North Merrick.

Nassau County video-enforcing school speed zones

Nassau County started video enforcement of school speed zones at 20 sites across the county, including two in the Bellmore-Merrick area, during the first week of September, when school began. Eventually, Nassau officials say they will install 56 cameras across the county. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/12/14

Yellow caution tape last week wrapped around parts of the playground at Chatterton School.

Police charge three juveniles with Chatterton playground fire

Three juveniles were arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with a small fire that was set at the Chatterton Elementary School playground sometime between Wednesday evening, Aug. 20, and Thursday morning, Aug. 21, according to Nassau County Police. more

8/21/14

After being its assistant principal for five years, Dana Bermas will become the Chatterton Elementary School principal on July 1. Above, second-grader Donovan Matthews shared his Father’s Day project with Bermas.

Chatterton's Dana Bermas to take school's reins

Dressed in a navy blue blazer and a flowered shirt, Dana Bermas gently knocked on the door of Melissa O’Donnell’s second-grade class at Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick on a recent Tuesday … more

By Casey Pinner | 6/19/14

The Merrick Board of Education unanimously decided on May 13 that school administrators were not to distribute field tests in math and English to classrooms at Birch, Chatterton and Levy Lakeside schools.

Central, Merrick districts refuse field tests

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and Merrick School District recently received shipments of multiple-choice tests, sealed in plastic wrap, from NCS Pearson, Inc., the company that creates and grades New York’s standardized tests for third to eighth graders. Both districts sent the test books back, unopened. more

By Brian Racow | 6/12/14

Isabella Mra and Patrick Sanchez, fifth-graders at Fayette, left, and Rhiannon Bradley and Jessica Mark, fifth-graders at Levy-Lakeside School, right, flashed smiles.

Scrabble tourney a blast for Merrick, North Merrick students

Elementary school students from the Progressive School of Long Island and Camp Avenue, Chatterton, Fayette, Levy-Lakeside, and Old Mill Road schools recently participated in a Scrabble tournament on May 27 at the Merrick Library. more

6/12/14

Chatterton Principal Cindy Davidowitz, who is retiring on June 30, recently visited Lori Marr’s fifth-grade class.

Leading, now leaving, Chatterton School

The halls of Roland A. Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick are adorned with student artwork: bulletin boards full of construction paper projects, crayon drawings and wobbly handwriting. On a recent Friday, children clad in flannel pants and superhero shirts for Pajama Day skipped down the hall in neat lines. more

By Casey Pinner | 6/4/14

There will likely be one less sixth grade classroom teacher at Chatterton School come the fall. Merrick Superintendent Dominick Palma said this is due to declining student enrollment. He described a budget for next school year that would “continue to maintain a high quality education for the children” and would be cost-neutral to Merrick property taxpayers after they receive a rebate check from the state.

Community to vote on Merrick School District budget

The Merrick School District Board of Education has adopted a budget for next school year that will, if approved by the community in the school vote on May 20, sustain level funding for most of the district’s functions and programs, according to Superintendent Dominick Palma. more

By Brian Racow | 5/14/14

At Birch Elementary School were National Foreign Language Week honorees with school officials, including Maya Spottiswood, Sophia Chen, Jordyn Fuller, Bella Joslin, Alina Noreika and Kaitlyn Medina; second row, Spanish teacher Jackie Geltman, Gabby Ostroff, Joshua Forstadt, Eric Shindel, Lara Indich, Brandon Lin and Principal Kerri Schlissel.

Birch, Chatterton elementary schools celebrate languages

Birch and Chatterton elementary schools in the Merrick School District recently celebrated National Foreign Language Week with a poster and literary contest, for which all participating students received certificates. The students’ projects interpreted this year’s theme, “Don’t Let Learning a Language Slip Through Your Fingers!” more

5/8/14

APEX students Samantha Loew, left, and Kendall Satcowitz, both sixth-graders at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School, watched and waited nervously as APEX teacher Sherry Ma added weights to their bridge in APEX’s annual Strongest Bridge competition.

Merrick APEX students test the limits of bridge design in annual contest

The 13 sixth-graders in the Merrick School District’s Alternative Program for Enriching Experiences recently spent more than four months drawing blueprints for and meticulously crafting toothpick bridges. They even visited the Center for Architecture in Manhattan to study bridge construction, from beam to cantilever, truss and arch bridges, before undertaking their projects. Then the students destroyed their creations. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/20/14

A day for reading at Chatterton Elementary School

Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick recently held its annual Community Reading Day, at which local leaders read to classes for a half-hour in the morning and answered questions about their work. Among the participants were elected leaders, professionals and educators. Paul Laursen, contributing editor for the Merrick Herald Life, read to Robin Harris’s fourth-grade class. At back were Laursen, Harris, center, and Chatterton Principal Cindy Davidowitz. more

1/31/14