Category: Patch.com Clips
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(Article published on Park Slope Patch on Jan. 28, 2014) Barbara Winslow is a professor of Women’s Studies at Brooklyn College and a 30-year resident of Park Slope who is responsible for starting and running the Shirley Chisholm Project/Brooklyn Women’s Activism at Brooklyn College. She was asked to pen the first biography in 40 years on Chisholm…
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(Full story as published June 19, 2012 at 10:20 PM) For the second time in just over a month, Mount Sinai School District residents headed to the polls to vote on a budget for the 2012-13′ school year. With the original tax cap-piercing budget failing to receive supermajority approval, concerned community members flocked to the…
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(Full story as published 4/4/13) The proposal of full-day kindergarten in the 2013-14 school budget in Miller Place has been a hot topic since first proposed by Superintendent Marianne Higuera. On Wednesday the Board of Education made a decision to adopt a budget without the proposal. After including kindergarten in the superintendent’s budget, the school…
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(Full story as published 3/14/13 on Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch) Full-Day kindergarten continued to be the topic of contention at Wednesday’s second budget workshop as the district pitched the proposal again while now including a four-year projection. Clearly the most controversial topic after the first workshop, the program would come at no cost to the…
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(Full story as published on the Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch) By Rich Arleo Three alumni take part in the Live Out Loud organization’s Homecoming Project to speak with current LGBTQ Miller Place students. When Miller Place alumni Doug Shapiro, Kate O’Brien and Michael Pesce went to high school as gay youths, acceptance at the time…