BeeKay May 22, 2013 at 11:41 am
@Cheap Sam...naive? You are the one who still hasn't answered the question I posed to you about 6x…Read More over the past two months. Please explain to us what you think today's kindergarten classroom consists of, in particular the kindergarten Common Core standards and expectations. You refer to full day kindergarten as "babysitting" and a "waste." Your intelligent posts speak volumes to your own value of education. @KM, IMO the pay scale is not the issue. As a parent of young children, I hold the teaching profession up there with any other. Educating our children is an honorable profession, and they should be compensated as such. If you want to argue that the state pension fund (TRS) is unsustainable or that employee medical contributions should be increased, I would have a difficult time countering those points. And how do you know that the only reason it passed was the freeze? 64.3% to 35.7% is pretty solid. Again, thanks to the UTS for working with Admin/BoE for the benefit of our students' programs. @Wayne, I agree that progress is not complete. And finally, one last point. I made sure to double check the ballot yesterday while voting for two BoE trustees. It appeared to me that only the two incumbents were running. So for all the malcontents, geniuses, and educational gurus we seem to have on this here Patch, not one felt compelled to take a proactive approach and actually run for a seat on the BoE. And spare us the excuses. Keep up the progress Seaford.
Joe May 22, 2013 at 10:32 am
Upon going up to vote I couldn’t help but notice the grounds really look poorly maintained,…Read More I’ve seen this at the high school as well, maybe the administration should look into contracting out the ground keeping, no salaries/benefits or equipment maintenance to contend with. Sorry not trying to rain on the parade, just looking for way to improve and save all at the same time.
Wayne Smith May 22, 2013 at 09:05 am
There's no doubt that this budget was an improvement over prior proposals and like most I supported…Read More it. But this is also a budget that grows 4.58% in the context of an economy that is struggling to achieve 2% growth, supported by taxpayers who are experiencing virtually no income growth at all. All of which means that the relative strain on family incomes is only getting worse.
The tax cap has helped to mitigate some of that strain, but it hasn't eliminated it. And the singular focus on staying under the cap that you've seen all across Long Island, misses this point. No doubt there's been progress, but as many a teacher has told me: progress is not completion.
Tom Terrific May 21, 2013 at 06:17 pm
And if you think that just blindly approving budgets year after year is the correct course of…Read More action, then NO level of education will spare you from the curse of that ignorance.
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All Boards » joe21 May 20, 2013 at 12:06 pm
$20 million of the $40 million will be spent on adding a pocket track, presumably east of…Read More Massapequa. Currently, trains are reversed east of the Wantagh interlocking, and while the engineer walks through the train, it blocks the track. This addition of a "pocket track" will probably also help Wantagh commuters some times, just as an emergency pull-over space on the LIE helps.
Eric Jurist May 18, 2013 at 03:27 pm
True, true, I'm sure there's a political payoff/payback here somewhere.
Chris Wendt May 15, 2013 at 02:05 pm
A tantalizing, mind-teasing story about a faceless team with no names who won honorable mention for…Read More some project about which we learned absolutely nothing from this article.
Journalism 101: Who what, why when and where?
Jaime Sumersille (Editor) May 13, 2013 at 10:43 am
Thanks for posting, Andy C. Great pic!
Jaime Sumersille, Regional Editor, Nassau County
MacArthur HS Student from Wantagh Receives Art Scholarship
Kimberly Kratzer receives plaque and scholarship check at ceremony.
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