As the West Hempstead community enters the final stretch of a challenging budget season, emotions are running high.
At the West Hempstead Board of Education’s third budget workshop on March …
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By Lee Landor
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4/6/11
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The West Hempstead Board of Education’s second budget workshop of the season, held on March 8, was punctuated by the crying, sniffling and distribution of tissues by students who attended to …
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By Svenja van den Woldenberg
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3/16/11
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Depending on your point of view, Governor Cuomo’s proposed superintendent salary cap is either a good start on the road to reining in exorbitant taxes across New York state or, at best, a symbolic gesture.
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3/10/11
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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending.
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Judy Rattner
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3/9/11
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Throughout the last two budget seasons, the West Hempstead school district has excessed nearly 85 positions, including administrators, teachers, clerical staff and coaches. It altered its academic …
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By Lee Landor
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3/9/11
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The West Hempstead school district’s contentious facilities-use policy remains unresolved, even after a four-hour policy session during which people on both sides of the aisle aired their …
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By Lee Landor and Svenja van den Woldenberg
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2/16/11
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A bomb threat at West Hempstead Middle School earlier this month has left the district administration under some fire from parents and staff who are unhappy with the way the situation was …
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By Lee Landor
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1/26/11
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Island Park’s fourth class of students have just made their choice for which high school they will be attending next year — Long Beach or West Hempstead. And with more than 100 Island …
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By Alex Costello
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1/12/11
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The American Red Cross recently designated a local school as an evacuation shelter that caters to the cultural needs of the Jewish community.
West Hempstead High School is now a kosher disaster …
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By Lee Landor
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1/12/11
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Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it.
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12/16/10
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