The Board of Regents met on Feb. 10th and were poised to vote on some course corrections. The vote was held on Feb 11th with regard to the rollout of Common Core, state tests and APPR.  You can read the press release and the proposed changes here.  http://www.oms.nysed.gov/press/regents-adjust-common-core-implementation.html

The Governor did not agree with the Regents.  You can read his brief comments here. http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/02102014-governor-cuomo-statement

At Feb. 11th's vote by the Regents, as the pressure from the Governor mounted, the Regents pulled their “course corrections”

Herricks Teachers' Association

Dear Colleagues,

We recently began negotiations on the Teachers' and Teaching Assistants' Contracts with the BOE and met only once. At that meeting we exchanged proposals. Our second meeting was cancelled due to the snowstorm on Tuesday.

We entered this process with expectations that negotiations were going to be very difficult during these trying times, but forged ahead as professionals wanting to work toward attempting to reach a fair successor agreement with the BOE.

On Friday afternoon, Jan. 24th, the BOE sent out a listserve memo to the community providing a "Negotiations Update for the

The Herricks Community Players are holding auditions for their production of Funny Girl.

Details can be found here in the flyer.