Dandan Zou
Reporter at Newsday
Education reporter @Newsday, alum @mujschool, previously @Kiplinger and @SoMdNews
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Dandan Zou |Arielle Martinez
More Long Island students attended school consistently last year following an alarming surge in chronic absenteeism — but the absence rate was still higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic, a Newsday analysis found. The overall rate of chronic absences for Island schools dropped from 19.4% in 2022-23 to 17.6% in 2023-24, according to state data. Across the region, more than 100 out of the Island’s 124 districts had fewer chronically absent students in 2023-24 than the year prior.
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1 month ago |
newsday.com | Dandan Zou
The elementary school principal who was cleared of disciplinary charges that alleged she stole a coworker’s gift card returned to work Monday, her attorney and the Amagansett district said. Principal Maria Dorr, who had been suspended with pay since January of 2024, said she returns to work at Amagansett School with “renewed commitment” in a statement shared by her attorney Arthur Scheuermann with the School Administrators Association of New York State based in upstate Latham.
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1 month ago |
newsday.com | Dandan Zou
The suspended principal of the Amagansett School — who had faced disciplinary charges alleging she stole a gift card from a co-worker — was found not guilty, according to a decision issued Thursday by a state-designated hearing officer. Timothy Taylor, who heard testimony from 15 witnesses over the course of seven hearings spanning months last year, sided with Maria Dorr, who was accused of taking the Amazon card after it went missing in December 2023.
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1 month ago |
newsday.com | Dandan Zou
Two Long Island spelling alums will return to the stage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May to give the championship another shot. Brian Liu, 13, from Great Neck, and Olivia Lipiec, 14, of Smithtown, will represent Long Island against some of the nation’s best spellers. Both teens had made it to the national stage before, Brian in 2023 and Olivia in 2024. Brian attends Great Neck North Middle School and Olivia attends Accompsett Middle School in Smithtown.
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1 month ago |
newsday.com | Robert Brodsky |Dandan Zou
President Donald Trump's administration will not renew a program Long Island's two largest food banks said provided their organizations with a total of $2.6 million they used to buy about 2.4 million pounds of locally-produced produce, meat and dairy products for underserved communities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week it was eliminating the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement, which had provided $420 million nationwide to food banks.
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