Long Island, NY – The Lawrence school budget passed last night by a wide margin, capping a divisive campaign that positioned parents of public school children against parents of children who attend private schools, as was reported here.
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With most votes counted, the district’s Web site gave the vote as 5,527 in favor, 3,191 opposed, and a district employee said today that while those numbers might change slightly, the outcome of the vote will not.
Three seats on the Board of Education were open, and two slates of candidates ran: Andrew Levey, Pamela Greenbaum and Maribel Cancelliere, all of whom have sent their children to public schools, and Solomon Blisko, David Sussman and Nahum Marcus, two of whom have children in private schools. Sussman sent his children to public school.
The vote went against the slate of candidates whose children all attended public schools. Marcus defeated Cancelliere (5,057 to 4,715), Blisko defeated Levey (5,046 to 4,725) and Sussman defeated Greenbaum (5,309 to 4,566). The library and transportation budgets passed. [Newsday]