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Wantagh school district reduces taxation, budget plans ahead of revote
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Four LI school districts consider budget revote after rejection from residents
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Voters in Smithtown, Port Washington voice displeasure at ballot box
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A slate of candidates backed by the Nassau and Suffolk County police unions were elected to the Smithtown school board Tuesday night. Across Long Island, over 400 candidates ran for school boards. Voters also approved school budgets in 116 school districts by mostly wide margins.
However, the Smithtown election was bitter and focused on the school s race and diversity curriculum.
During nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd, a thousand Smithtown school district students and residents wrote the school district asking for more racial diversity in the school’s curriculum.
Among other things, the school responded with the reading of a children s book about a child whose skin was “too brown” to play Snow White in a school musical. School administrators said similar materials were available in the library.
Long Island school elections, 2021-22 Print Email
School district residents go to the polls on May 18 to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year. Below are the details on the ballots in 124 districts. Results will be posted here as they become available.
Read our full coverage of the results here.
The Great Neck, Lawrence, Hewlett-Woodmere and West Hempstead districts received permission from the state to hold voting on May 11, before the statewide date of May 18, which is also the date of the Jewish holiday Shavuot.
Get more information on school district budget and tax plans here, and see last year s election results here. Sign up for The Classroom, Newsday s education newsletter, here.