Sentences with phrase «island school official»

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The Queen Anne's County Office of the Sheriff is investigating a threatening message found inside of the main campus of Kent Island High School Tuesday morning, officials said.

Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as possible.

State environmental officials said they are investigating a dumping site discovered on a lot next to a Brentwood, Long Island middle school.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Dan Donovan hosts Department of Homeland Security and FEMA officials for a school safety roundtable with the NYC Department of Education and NYPD, Michael J. Petrides Education Complex, 715 Ocean Terrace, Building H, Staten Island.

Scott Beigel, the teacher and Long Island native fatally shot while trying to save his students during last month's school shooting in Florida, will be honored Wednesday with a candlelight vigil at Huntington Town Hall, officials said.

Scott Beigel, the teacher and Long Island native fatally shot while trying to save his students during last month's school shooting in Florida, will be honored Wednesday with a candlelight vigil at Huntington Town Hall, officials said Sunday.

Students of a Long Island middle and high school are now required to wear clear backpacks on campus as part of a new safety measure in the wake of the Valentine's Day mass shooting that left 17 dead in Florida, an official confirmed to The Post.

The number of threats against Long Island schools reported to police have surged this year, most notably since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, officials say.

Long Island law enforcement and school officials, spurred by the South Florida shooting that left 17 dead Wednesday, say they are prepared to swiftly respond if a similar rampage takes place in Nassau or Suffolk schools.

According to records and the officials familiar with the case, prosecutors also turned loose two men poised to execute a home - invasion robbery of a drug dealer whose plan they overheard on a wire and allowed drug activity to continue that involved the distribution of cocaine in Long Island high schools.

ALBANY — Growth in school taxes on Long Island and statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses.

Lead exceeding district standards was found in 12 water fountains in six buildings throughout the Northport - East Northport school district on Long Island earlier this month, officials said, and those water fountains have been shut down.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

Flaws in many students» test booklets during the English language arts exam last week spurred complaints from frustrated school officials, who say the errors further undermine confidence in the Common Core assessments — already repudiated by Long Island parents pulling their children from the exams in record numbers.

Castorina has never run for public office before, but is well known among the Island's elected officials for his pro bono lawsuit filed against the city in 2010 to restore school buses for seventh and eighth grade students.

ALBANY — A Staten Island senator is holding up a bill to reduce New York City's speed limit because he wants city officials to get on board with his longstanding proposal to require stop signs around schools.

Alexis Kirschbaum, an Advanced Placement United States Government teacher at Staten Island Technical High School, said, «I am excited that our school will be participating in Governor Cuomo's educational initiative and that our students will have this incredible opportunity to be actively engaged with their government offiSchool, said, «I am excited that our school will be participating in Governor Cuomo's educational initiative and that our students will have this incredible opportunity to be actively engaged with their government offischool will be participating in Governor Cuomo's educational initiative and that our students will have this incredible opportunity to be actively engaged with their government officials.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

At 11:30 a.m., Suffolk County Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory and LGBT Network President / CEO Dr. David Kilmnick will join other officials to discuss the steady rise of LGBT harassment in schools and the workplace, Suffolk County Legislature, 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, William J. Lindsay Complex, Smithtown, Long Island.

UPDATE: Johnson released a lengthy statement in response to the AFL - CIO attack, noting he has been a «strong supporter» of a property tax cap and charter schools, was «proud» to support Tier V — «a move that will save Long Island taxpayers $ 8.5 billion and save this state $ 35 billion over the next three decades» — and has been urging teacher and public sector unions to sit down with elected officials to «hammer out revised wage agreements that reflect the current economic reality.»

Now, school officials hope to convince teachers from the island to follow.

Valley Stream School District 30's proposed tax levy increase of 13.71 percent is the second highest on Long Island, but schools officials said it's a «readjustment year» from the fallout over the Green Acres Mall and its tax breaks.

East Side elected officials want engineering schools to pick Roosevelt Island for their proposed campus, they said Wednesday.

Officials finalized an agreement at a joint Grand Island Town Board and School Board meeting Monday.

Check it out below after the official synopsis... Set on the shores of Long Island's Gold Coast, the story centers around Hardy Buchanan (Skyler Gisondo), a poor high school senior surrounded by affluence -LSB-...]

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

In Rhode Island, state officials announced that all schools needed to expand the number of instructional minutes.

Leading foundations, school networks, and nonprofits are putting it front and center in their efforts, and innovation - minded officials in states like Rhode Island are actively promoting it as a strategy for improving student success.

Even though English is the official language of the island and children are taught Jamaican standard English (a mix of American and British English) in Jamaican schools, many of them grow up speaking Jamaican Creole at home.

In Rhode Island, a state official said TNTP was paid $ 400,070 to train the evaluators — including principals and other school administrators — who will observe teachers.

This study — through surveys and interviews of state and school district officials, as well as collection and analysis of school - level spending data — explores the feasibility of improving the collection of school - level expenditure data by examining the nature and quality of school - level fiscal data collection in five states and four school districts that had developed their own systems for collecting and reporting school - level expenditures: Florida, Hawaii, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Baltimore City, Hillsborough County, Houston, and Los Angeles.

Help for the displaced: Donated school supplies are pouring into central Florida to help students displaced by hurricanes from Puerto Rico and other islands, but more are needed, officials say.

If you have been convicted of a traffic violation in Oak Island North Carolina and complete the driver improvement clinic, also known a Oak Island North Carolina traffic school or a Oak Island North Carolina defensive driving program, you can get up to three points taken off your driving record, as stated in the Oak Island North Carolina DMV's official driver's handbook.