New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Explains New Partnership with Long Beach

The New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District was recently announced as the partner with the Long Beach Middle School as part of a grant for lower performing schools to boost student achievement.

“I know there was some concern about pulling teachers out of the classroom during this,” New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Superintendent Robert Katulak said at the Manor Oaks School during the April 8 meeting of the board of education. “It will only be for training, it won’t be to go to another district and to do their work for them.”

The focus of the partnership will be on looking at all the initiatives that the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District has been doing in terms of technology over the last five years, from hardware to software programs including Read 180, Pearl Online, FAST Math, Fraction Nation and Brain Pop.

There were a number of districts in the state which were designated as failing schools. Those failing schools had to submit requests for proposals for their plans about what they would do if they received federal Race to the Top funds detailing how they would use the tutelage from the reward school, otherwise known as dissemination schools.

As a reward school, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park submitted a proposal for funds for personnel, reading coaches and aides, $20,00 for consultants, $30,000 for supplies, $15,000 for supplies, $40,000 for software and licenses and $10,000 for computer and listening systems.

Long Beach was designated the partner with New Hyde Park-Garden City Park and will comes and watch what New Hyde Park-Garden City Park is doing with the equipment and the funds.

“And then they put in their money and use their money to replicate – that’s what it’s called, a replication grant – on their end,” Katulak explained. “Say I do a staff development on the common core learning standard, they come in and they’re a part of that staff development because they’re learning equally because they’re learning that we have all these great strategies that you see outstanding presentations like tonight.”

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