It was a celebration of fall last week at Shaw Avenue School. There were a variety of activities to celebrate the season, culminating with a carnival on Friday.
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Andrew Hackmack
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11/4/09
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Teachers switched places with one another on Oct. 23 in District 13. It was mystery teacher day, an event chosen by students during the budget vote in May.
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Andrew Hackmack
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11/4/09
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The construction of an elevator to serve the Valley Stream Central High School District offices at Memorial Junior High School is currently under way, and some teachers at the school say that noise from the work has disrupted their classrooms.
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Anthony Bottan
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11/4/09
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For more than two decades, members of the Valley Stream Fire Department have been visiting local schools to teach children the basics of fire safety.
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Andrew Hackmack
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11/4/09
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In recognition of Board of Education Appreciation Week, students from the three elementary schools in District 24 gathered at the Oct. 21 board meeting to thank the board for all it has done for them.
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Anthony Bottan
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10/29/09
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Out of about 1,500 students in the 10th and 11th grades in the Valley Stream Central High School District, nearly 100 had yet to re-register by the end of last week.
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by Andrew Hackmack
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10/29/09
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Children who are legal residents of Valley Stream District 13 and will be 5 years of age on or before Dec. 1, 2010, are eligible to register for kindergarten for the 2010-11 school year.
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10/29/09
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The District 30 community honored five people on Monday night who give countless hours to the schools. To mark Board of Education Recognition Week, the PTA recognized the top district’s top decision-makers.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/29/09
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For the second straight year, school districts are facing the possibility of a midyear aid cut as Gov. Paterson seeks to plug New York state’s deficit.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/29/09
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I’d like to devote my 750 words this week to shamelessly promoting two books by a former colleague and good friend, Michael Otterman. They are “American Torture” (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007) and “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage,” to be published in 2010.
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Scott Brinton
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10/22/09
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