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Friday, june 26, 2015
vol. 3, no. 26
guide to
Health, Wellness & Beauty
GUIDe TO HeALTH, WeLLNeSS & BeAUTY
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wide variation in spending per student
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N. Shore schools range from $33.8K to $22K for 2015-16 BY J I m G A L L O W AY North Shore school districts together plan to spend more than $1 billion in the coming fiscal year, but spending varied by tens of millions from district to district, and some school officials worry the state’s property tax cap may only widen the gap. Great Neck school district has the highest budget on the North Shore at about $216.6 million, nearly $40 million more than the second-highest spender, Sewanhaka, whose budget is about $178.8 million. New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school district, an elementary school district with the fewest students on the North Shore, has the smallest budget at $36.8 million, about $20 million less than that of East Williston, the school district with the second-lowest enrollment. Roslyn’s budget is $103.9 mil-
lion; Herricks’ budget is $108.2 million; Mineola’s budget is $89.7 million; Manhasset’s budget is $90.4 million and Port Washington’s budget is $144.9 million Per-pupil spending ranged from about $22,000 at Sewanhaka, which has more than 8,000 students, to nearly $34,000 at Great Neck, which has about 6,400 students. In 2014-15, the most recent year for which figures were compiled, Great Neck had the 46th highest per-pupil spending in the state, out of 669 districts ranked by Syracuse.com. Sewanhaka ranked 421st. “The tax cap is widening the gap between those districts, and that’s something we are concerned about,” Sewanhaka Superintendent Ralph Ferrie said. “The tax cap is what’s actually exacerbating [the disparity in spending] in terms of the fact it’s widening the Continued on Page 50
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Construction to demolish the Colonial Road bridge in Great Neck caused a shake-up of Long Island Railroad service on the Port Washington line, which includes the Manhasset and Plandome stops. Read the story on page 4.
Seven Boy Scouts honored with prestigious Eagle rank BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO
on the big board, when he saw a woman carrying a large suitcase struggle to get down the David Doucette was scur- stairs amid the mob. It was then, he said, that rying with the Penn Station crowd, rushing to catch a train his instinct to run toward danwhose platform was just posted ger — instilled through years
of Boy Scout training and leadership roles with the Theodore Roosevelt Council — kicked into gear, and he assisted her. “If anyone ever asks you whether scouting is relevant to Continued on Page 51
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