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From Hauppauge: Parents Blast Hauppauge Supe Over Placement of Homeless Students
After a shelter for homeless families opened this summer within the borders of the Hauppauge school district, a decision by the school superintendent to place all of the shelter’s elementary-age students into Forest Brook Elementary has parents on edge.
At a nearly four-hour public school board meeting on Tuesday, dozens of angry Forest Brook parents grilled superintendent Patricia Sullivan-Kriss over her decision. Among the parents' concerns is overcrowding at the school, which parents already described as full to the brim.
From Northport: Northport School District Outlines LIPA Tax Battle
After a shelter for homeless families opened this summer within the borders of the Hauppauge school district, a decision by the school superintendent to place all of the shelter’s elementary-age students into Forest Brook Elementary has parents on edge.
At a nearly four-hour public school board meeting on Tuesday, dozens of angry Forest Brook parents grilled superintendent Patricia Sullivan-Kriss over her decision. Among the parents' concerns is overcrowding at the school, which parents already described as full to the brim.
From Northport: Northport School District Outlines LIPA Tax Battle
About 200 residents crowded the Northport-East Northport School Board meeting last week at the William J. Brosnan School to hear the latest on the Long Island Power Authority’s litigation challenging its tax assessment on the Northport power plant.
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