Bethpage-Tribune_1973-08-23

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VOL. 7 NO. 40
Thursday, August 2 3 , 1 9 73
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Teens Study Government from Pia/nwew-o/d B e ^ e
Plainview Back-To-School
Message From Dr„ Savitt
'Accountability Clause'
In Superintendents
Contract
Plainview-Old Bethpage
Schools will open for students on
Wednesday, September 5th with
district-wide and building faculty
meetings scheduled the day
before.
During the past summer a
number of important repair and
maintenance projects have taken
place in our schools and several
faculty groups have been in­volved
in planning new programs
and curriculum.
We are pleased to announce
that all is in readiness for the new
school year-a year in which
Plainview community will have
to consider important future
directions for our school district.
The Board of Education has
announced that following months
OfstadythBy plan by midyear iu
announce a five year plan
regarding the future use of
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BETHPAGE LAWMAKER JN§TJtUCTS YOUNGSTERS" I N ^ , - v . , .
LAWMAKING PROCESS: Amssemblyman Stuart R. Levine (R- f V o m Plainedae
TOfnpSgl^'1|BKPIiWr'«Wwtt» fcrirtn right, guided Long island -_ &
youngsters through the legislative process recently when they met
with the Teen Age Republican School (TARS) in albany at the
Capitol for an annual legislative Day. First row from left, they are:
Susan Horcher, Mary Ann Horcher and Jeanne Bertonis, all of
Garden City; Susan Sohmer of Hempstead; Assemblyman Levine;
Elisa Garcia, Ginny Branca and Cynthia Somers, all of Plainview.
Standing in rear from left, are: Dough Hezog and Bruce Blakemanx
of Valley Steam; Claude De Lucia of West empstead; Raymond
Bertolino of Muttontown; Stephen Malone of Freeport; Vic Looper,
staff aide; and Tim Heiniman of Old Bethpage.
.Schools enrollments are in a
period of decline and an intensive
study is now underway to
determine future enrollment
projections. In order to assist the
Board in' developing its long
range program for school usage
a. community survey will be
conducted in the fall to get
community suggestions.
A number of new and in­novative
educational program
will be operative in September
including a unique junior high
school program in the Plainview-
Old Bethpage Junior. High School
designed to provide for greater
individualization in instruction.
Many opportunities will be
provided for Plainview citizens to -
participate in school projects this
coming yefcr— with an­nouncements
regarding such
opportunities, to be made in
September.
Back-To-School Message
By G. Bretton, Acting Superintendent
Assemblyman Stuart R. Levine
(R-Bethpage) acted as mentor to
a group of Long Island
youngsters who met in Albany
recently to participate in a
Legislative Day conducted by the
Teen Age Republican School
(TARS).
TARS is a group of interested
youngsters which has been
formed to provide them with the
opportunity of learning the
legislative process in depth. The
organization meets once a year in
Albany at the Capitol where they
are instructed on the initiation,
drafting, introduction and debate
of a bill. The 'bill' is then acted
upon during a mock session of the
Assembly.
Assemblyman Levine, a for­mer
teacher of environmental
courses and a member of the
Assembly Standing Committee
on Environmental Conservation,
guided the teenagers through the
preparation and action of
legislation to create a temporary
State commission to study and
make recommendations con­cerning
the problem of pollution
by automobiles.
"These youngsters indicated
an avid interest in the legislative
process," said Levine.
"Recognizing the proper ap­proach
to defending a bill allows
mem the opportunity of gleaning
the important aspects in any
particular issue. This, of course,
can be applied to many situations
met in life and they also have the
tremendous experience of seeing
their own 'legislation' pass the
House."
Approximately 6200 students
will be returning to school in a
few short weeks in the Plainedge
School District. School opens for
students on Wednesday, Sep­tember
5th. The elementary
enrollment in the district's 5
schools is approximately 2900.
There are approximately 1600 -
students in the two junior high
schools and 1700 students
enrolled in the high school.
The professional teaching staff
numbers 356. Total district staff,
including non-instructional lull
and part-time personnel, will be
approximately 615.
This year we will continue a
district-wide drug education
program by Miss Gloria
Rosenthal, Coordinator of Health
Education. As part of the drug
program there will be an in­tensified
in-service training
program for teachers.
Several new extracurricular
clubs will be offered to junior
high school students, e.g.
Photography Club, Manufac­turing
Club, Stage Band, Gym­nastics-
Girls, individual bowling
teams for girls and boys.
Many Cooperative Area
Programs (CAP) were approved
this summer for the professional
staff from Plainedge to develop
written programs and
curriculum materials in various
subject areas. One outstanding
project developed for use by our
staff next year is an English-
Math Pilot 10th Grade in­dividualized
curriculum program
which has been devised to resolve
problems that students have
frequently encountered in the
learning process by the time they
have reached 10th grade. First
and foremost is that the con-
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Dr. Robert F. Savitt
At the August 13, 1973 Plain-r
View Old Bethpage meeting of the -
Board of Education the Board
unanimously approved a new five
year contract for Dr.v Robert F.
Savitt, Superintendent of Schools,
Mainview-OJd - Bethpage School
District, Plainview, New York,
featuring a unique "ac­countability"
clause. Dr. Savitt
holds one of the longest tenures of
office currently in Nassau County
having started his service in
Plainview in 1958.
Mr. Jay Bernstein, President of
the District's Board of
Education, at its regular meeting
last night, said that the new
contract represents an in­novation
in School Board/ -
Superintendent relations in that it
provides for tbe Superintendent
and the Board to mutually adopt
Performance Objectives and
evaluation criteria at the start of
each contract year and then to
meet at the end of each year to
determine the extent to which the
objectives have been met.
Dr. Savitt stated that he felt
that mutual accountability is
required if the Board and the
Superintendent are to carry out
their roles in attaining desirable
district-wide professional ob­jectives.
The Superintendent also
pointed out that for years the
District has been involved in a
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Hofstra Law School Accredited
Area schools - Capsule Report
The Hofstra University School
of Law was given full approval by
the American Bar Association on
August 8, during the 1973 annual
meeting of, the ABA House of
Delegates. Provisional approval
was. givftff „tli»«school «• 1971,
when it had only a first-year
program; full approval could not
be granted until the entire three-year
program was in operation.
The favorable decision by the
ABA House of Delegates was
based on a detailed report about
the School's administration,
lacully, law library, students,
curriculum and facilities
prepared following an inspection
this year.
In the three years since classes
began, the Law School
enrollment has increased from
an entering class of 79 in Sep­tember,
1970 to more than 500
The 212 students who will begin
law study theje;.this September
were selected from over 2,000
applicants. An addition to the
Law School building, scheduled
lor completion by September,
1974, will enlarge the facilities to
accomodate a total enrollment of
625.
Read the JRIBUHF
Vile Cm About You
By Theresa Spellman
BETHPAGE
DISTRICT NO. 21
Opening Date - Wednesday,
September 5th.
New Tax Rate -$13.12 per $100
Wassessed valuation for school
district and Ubx^ry.
Names of Board Membe/st
Herman Slavin, President;
Anthony Cotton, Vice President;
Richard Gorman; Elizabeth
Regan; HaroldResnick; Anthony
LoFaso and Salvatore Iannello.
ISLAND TREES
DISTRICT NO. 26
Opening Date - Wednesday,
September 5th
New Tax Rate - $13.95 per $100
of assessed valuation for school
district and 30 cents per $100 of
assessed valuation for library.
Names of Board Members;
Louis Di Mitri, President; John
Libera tore; Thomas Mulcahey;
William Richter; Richard
Ahrens; James Burke and
Richard Melchers. The new
District Clerk is Isabelic
Wirkula.
PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE
DISTRICT NO. 4
Opening Date - Wednesday,
September 5th
New Tax Rate $16.80 per $100
of assessed valuation.
Names of Board Members: Jay
M. Bernstein, President; Mit­chell
Laub, Vice President;
Charles M. Mattingly, Jr.;
Harvey Brickman; Alvin D.
Delman; Joseph Scholnick and
Sidney Horn.
PLAINEDGE
DISTRICT NO. 18
Opening Date - Wednesday,
September* 5th
New Tax Rate -$15.58 per $100
of assessed valuation for school
district and 70 cents per $100 of
assessed valuation for library.
Names of Board Members:
Franklin McGrath, President;
Robert Galante; Irving Weber;
Dominick Gagliardo; James
Edelman; Donald Kant or and
Michael Cimino.
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