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Many support ousted principal of Hewlett High media, encouraging people to attend. School board President R e s i d e n t s c r o w d e d t h e Debra Sheinin took to social Hewlett School District Board media before the meeting to o f E d u c a t i o n m e e t i n g o n address the situation, saying March 12, a month after they that part of her job is to make found out that Hewlett High the best decisions School Principal for the community, Alexandra Greeneven if it isn’t the berg would not be most popular returning to the choice. school. “We, as the More than 100 Board of Educaparents and stution, were elected dents gathered in by this community the Woodmere Eduto serve the best cation Center to interests of the voice their support entire district,” for Greenberg, and Sheinin said in a to tell school board posted statement. trustees why they “That includes the believed it was in silent voices, those their best interests who cannot be to bring her back. heard, and the stuC o m m u n i t y GIL BRuh dents who remain m e m b e r s w e r e Hewlett Harbor village unseen due to conmade aware that fidentiality. And trustee Greenberg’s tenure that also means at the high school making decisions was ending when a job listing that are not always popular or was posted on OLAS, an online easy — but are necessary.” education job search platform, Audience members were in February. They created a given two minutes to discuss petition, which at press time non-agenda items, and many had 322 signatures, in an effort addressed the Greenberg decito keep Greenberg on. Adver- sion. Sheinin directed that no tisements for last week’s meet- individuals could be mentioned ing were posted on social Continued on page 7
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Ellie Kauderer clearly enjoyed herself as the bull whipped her around at the Purim in the Wild West celebration with the Chabad of Hewlett, at the Stella K. Abrham High School for Girls.
Lawrence club returns to international stage By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
For the first time in three years, Lawrence High School’s DECA club will be represented at the International Career Development Conference. Junior Nataly Gutierrez is the only member of Lawrence’s club that will take part in the competition in Orlando April 26 to 29. DECA, formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America, prepares aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the world. More than 23,000 high school students, teacher-advisers, business professionals and alumni will gather at the conference next month.
Mark Albin, who taught STEM courses — science, technology, engineering and math — at the high school before moving to Lawrence Elementary School, has been Lawrence’s DECA adviser for 20 years, and this will be his fifth appearance in Orlando. “We have qualified for 17 of my 20 years, but we’re coming off a three-year drought,” Albin wrote in an email. “I think coming off of Covid and my move to teaching at the elementary level gives me less access to the DECA students and contributed to our low numbers of competitors and success.” Albin now teaches STEM at the elementary school. The number of Lawrence High participants in New York DECA’s 65th annual State Career ConferContinued on page 9
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