Hempstead High School, middle school rise to academic good standing
After decades of languishing on the state's needs-improvement list, both the high school and middle school in Hempstead are being elevated to acade...
After decades of languishing on the state's needs-improvement list, both the high school and middle school in Hempstead are being elevated to academic good standing, local officials have announced. School board president Randy Stith, Superintendent Regina Armstrong and other officials have scheduled a press conference at 11 a.m. Monday to celebrate their schools' new status and to discuss the future of the 6,600-student system. The conference is to be held at Hempstead High School. First word of the academic upgrade came at a Wednesday board meeting, where jubilant administrators and board trustees applauded what they described as the lifting of most negative state "accountability" ratings that have troubled Nassau County's largest K-12 school system for more than 30 years.