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Tooker Fourth Graders Show Off Their Research

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Photo courtesy of West Babylon School District In recognition of Black History Month, fourth graders at Tooker Avenue Elementary School in the West Babylon School District researched influential African American figures. Students choose one person to research who helped to change history. They wrote their facts, along with a photo, on a card to create […]
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Northwell Health, New York City Public Schools Announce Innovative Healthcare High School To Address Local Healthcare Workforce Shortages With Support From Bloomberg Philanthropies

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Northwell Health and New York City Public Schools announced today an unprecedented partnership to design a career-focused high school that will help prepare students for well-paying careers in healthcare and address local education and healthcare talent needs. The Northwell School of Health Sciences will fully integrate healthcare career knowledge and job training with a
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Hoops For Hearts

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Photo courtesy of Smithtown CSD Fourth and fifth graders at Mills Pond Elementary had a nice workout for a great cause when they participated in Hoops for Hearts, raising over $900 for the American Heart Association. The students gathered together on Feb. 15, to compete in a three-point challenge, relay races and basketball games.
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Town Hosts Lunar New Year Celebration With Jericho, Plainview & Syosset Civic Association

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Pictured: Receiver of Taxes Jeffrey Pravato, Supervisor Joseph Saladino, Councilman Louis Imbroto, and Councilwoman Vicki Walsh honor Sitan Tai Chi To commemorate the Year of the Dragon, Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino and his colleagues on the Town Board joined several Asian-American community organizations to host the Town’s annual Lunar New Year Celebration
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Spreading Love Through Service-Learning

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Photos courtesy of the Sachem Central School District Members of the Kids Care Club at Tamarac Elementary School in Sachem spread the love this February by working on blanket donations. Students collaborated to make no-sew blankets during their before-school meetings. The blankets were donated to Good Samaritan University Hospital and the Islip Animal Shelter. Students
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Three Seniors Achieve Girl Scout Gold

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Pictured: From left, Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School students Theresa Soraire, Emily Newman and Annamaria Pepe recently earned their Girls Scouts Gold Award.  Photo courtesy of Copiague School District Three seniors from Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School recently earned their Gold Awards, the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA which […]
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Deer Park ENL Students Connect For Groundhog Day

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Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Seventh and eighth grade English as a New Language students from Christy Villalobos’ class at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School recently visited John Quincy Adams Primary School to spend time with a group of younger ENL students for Groundhog Day. The middle school ENL students began by […]