It has been more than a year since Dr. Paul Lynch, the Lynbrook School District’s assistant superintendent for finance, sent the State Education Department plans to use a nearly $893,000 Smart Schools Bond to fund security updates for the district.
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By Melissa Koenig
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3/29/18
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With educators across the country evaluating safety procedures after the recent mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., Lynbrook School District officials sent a letter to the State Education Department seeking to expedite hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding that the district should have been awarded last spring for security initiatives — but was not.
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By Mike Smollins
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3/1/18
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Lynbrook High School was recently recognized as a Reward School by the New York State Education Department for its continued high academic performance among students.
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2/7/18
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An unauthorized user may have had access to personal information of ten Oceanside School No. 2 students State Education Department officials said on Jan. 18.
According to a news release, Questar …
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By Peter Belfiore
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1/18/18
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Since 2012, when New York state adopted the Common Core State Standards, many students with special needs have received certificates rather than diplomas when they completed high school.
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8/3/17
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New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core.
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6/1/17
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Nearly half a million students, ages 12 to 18, fell victim to violence at schools across the U.S. in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available, according to . . .
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12/2/16
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Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time.
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10/13/16
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For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . .
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9/15/16
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The East Meadow Board of Education recently announced that students in third through eighth grades would no longer take the field tests that the creators of the State Education Department’s …
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By Julie Mansmann
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5/12/16
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