The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it plans to investigate whether New York education officials are being ...

A Long Island school district is mourning the loss of one of its middle school teachers who reportedly died days after ...

In Massapequa, the word "chief" means way more than a school team or symbol -- it's part of the community's fabric.

The Massapequa School District on Long Island is at the center of a growing national controversy after President Trump voiced ...

In Massapequa, the word "chief" means way more than a school team or symbol -- it's part of the community's fabric.

In 2023, a Newsday investigation found district officials on Long Island persuaded 103 educators to resign over a decade, using confidential agreements approved by school boards that did not ...

Mr. Trump this week homed in on a suburban hamlet on Long Island, where the public school district is ensnared in a lengthy, bitter clash with New York’s state government over a mandate to banis ...

calling for the federal Secretary of Education to “fight” for the school district to maintain its mascot. “I agree with the people in Massapequa, Long Island, who are fighting furiously to ...

The announced investigation also comes several days after President Donald Trump waded in into a local fight over the Massapequa school ... to now force the Long Island district to change it.

“However, the U.S. Department of Education’s attempt to interfere with a state law concerning school district mascots ... which has a reservation on Long Island, said in a statement that ...

President Trump has thrown his support behind a Long Island school district’s fight to keep its mascot after New York’s State Education Board banned the use of Native American-inspired names ...