12.07.2015 Education Skuggevik applauds Zeldin amendment on Common Core Shelter Island School Superintendent Leonard Skuggevik has applauded Congressman Lee Zeldin’s recent success in getting an amendment passed in the House of Representatives allowing local school districts to opt...
04.23.2015 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: United at last When historians come to assess the political era Americans are slogging through at present, the word that will lead the written record will be “polarization.”
04.23.2015 Education Weighing in on opting out: Board of Ed members on Common Core Board of Education member Al Brigham’s son opted out of taking Common Core Standards tests administered this month with his father’s approval. “It was really up to him,” said...
12.04.2013 Editorial Reporter editorial: Time to rethink Common Core Standards A number of speakers at the Eastport-South Manor High School forum November 25 were eloquent in their pleas to State Education Commissioner John King to abandon or change the...
12.03.2013 Education Common Core fractured by opposition A battle is being joined that is heading to the heart of the U.S. educational system.