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Column: It’s the parents who need to fight Common Core
CARRIE MILLER PHOTO | Educators packed a forum at Eastport-South Manor High School last week to express their displeasure over Common Core. Our local teachers and administrators are sounding an...
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Featured Letter: Find a way to share superintendent
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Southold superintendent David Gamberg. To the editor: In the Nov. 28 edition of The Suffolk Times, Mattituck school board president Jerry Diffley says he doesn’t believe sharing a...
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New Suffolk officials wary of Comptroller’s draft audit report
CARRIE MILLER PHOTO | District Superintendent Michael Comanda discussing the state Comptroller’s draft audit report Tuesday night. New Suffolk Common School officials discussed the status of the state...
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Mattituck school board to discuss high school track project, finances
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | This existing cinder track at Mattituck High School is slated to be replaced by an all-weather track. Mattituck-Cutchogue School District business administrator Michael...
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Mattituck looking to boost security at high school
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | District business administrator Michael Engelhardt The Mattituck-Cutchogue School District is looking to increase security at the high school, with representatives from...
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Flanagan to King: Delay data storage plan, drop pre-K through 2nd grade...
COURTESY PHOTO | State Senator John Flanagan during his press conference in Brentwood on Thursday. State Senator John Flanagan is calling on the state Department of Education to delay using a...
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Guest Column: What does Common Core actually mean?
The term Common Core has been used in these pages and elsewhere to describe the new policies and practices schools are being asked to adopt by the State Education Department. However, Common Core is...
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Mattituck BOE notes: Unforeseen costs for track project
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | The existing cinder track at Mattituck High School. Less than two months after Mattituck-Cutchogue School District voters approved a $925,000 bond to fund a new track at...
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Mattituck student among group that penned civil rights book
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | Mattituck student Terrence McKinney with the book, “Seven Days With Carole.” Mattituck High School student Terrence McKinney has contributed to a children’s book about Carole...
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North Fork NJROTC earning ‘unprecedented’ accomplishments
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | The Southold-Mattituck-Greenport NJROTC unit during its annual inspection last Wednesday at Southold High School. The cadets took home top awards last month during a regional...
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Southold High School to stage ‘sensitive’ production of ‘Rent’
The Southold High School Drama Club is preparing to stage a production of the popular musical “Rent” this spring, but the version you’ll see on the school stage will likely feel different than the one...
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Oysterponds school board to vote on superintendent, principal contract...
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | The Oysterponds school board meeting is at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The Oysterponds school board is expected to vote on contract extensions for Superintendent Richard Malone...
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Oysterponds votes to extend superintendent, principal contracts
CARRIE MILLER PHOTO | The Oysterponds Board of Education during a hearing about the school’s enrichment program Tuesday night. The Oysterponds school board approved a salary increase and contract...
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State audit slams New Suffolk’s ‘numerous deficiencies’
The New Suffolk Common School District maintained an excessive fund balance and therefore inappropriately levied its taxpayers for six school years, according to an audit released Monday by the New...
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Southold BOE to endorse letter to Gov. Cuomo, Commissioner King
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | Southold School District Superintendent David Gamberg during a recent public meeting on Common Core. Southold school board members are expected to vote Wednesday night...
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Book that sparked debate back in classrooms
FILE PHOTO | Southold School District Superintendent David Gamberg. Southold Superintendent David Gamberg confirmed Wednesday that a children’s book that sparked a debate within the community has been...
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Mercy High School students receive Suffolk Zone awards
COURTESY PHOTO | From left, Mercy High School athletic director John Lonardo, seniors Jacqueline Zaweski and Kurt Bahnke, and physical education teacher Patricia Doroski. Two seniors from Bishop-McGann...
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Cops: Teens nabbed for thefts at Greenport schools
SUFFOLK TIMES FILE PHOTO Three local teens have been arrested in connection with a string of break-ins at Greenport school buildings over the last two months, according to a Southold Town police press...
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The Year in Education 2013
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Students and staff at the morning buses at Cutchogue East Elementary School on the first day of the 2013-14 school year. From security to Common Core, it was a year...
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Who would you pick for our 2013 Educator of the Year?
FILE IMAGE | Who will be our 2013 Educator of the Year? The Suffolk Times will announced its Educator of the Year in its Jan. 2, 2014 issue. Here is a list of people that have won the award since 2000:...
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