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Vickie Moller is a professional freelance writer and a regular contributor to LongIsland.com. Her focus is on Long Island’s schools and creating informative directories based on themes and events around the Island. She also contributes stories from personal interviews with Long Island professionals and newsmakers. With a tremendous respect for the power of the written word, Vickie works hard to serve her readers with accurate, timely and comprehensive news and information.
Vickie can be reached at VickieM@longisland.com
By Vickie Moller October 29, 2013
Contrary to President Obama's pledge that people who like their health care plans would be able to keep them under the new Affordable Care Act, more than two million Americans have been told they cannot ...
By Vickie Moller October 25, 2013
State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr. Wednesday announced the grant recipients for two programs that support educators throughout the state: the round two of the Strengthening Teacher and Leader Effectiveness (STLE) Grand Program and ...
By Vickie Moller October 22, 2013
In frenzied panic students ran for cover as shots were fired Monday at the Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev. by a fellow student, who, after killing a teacher and wounding two students, shot and ...
By Vickie Moller October 18, 2013
As a forerunner in education and innovation, Stony Brook University was one of the first academic institutions to respond to the recession of 2008 by instituting the Corporate Education Training (CET) Transitional Certificate Training Program, ...
By Vickie Moller October 16, 2013
Following a raucous barrage of criticism from parents and teachers last week at a town-hall style meeting in Poughkeepsie to discuss Common Core Standards, State Education Commissioner John King Saturday canceled four remaining statewide meetings.
By Vickie Moller October 10, 2013
In keeping with the growing demand for vibrant, mixed-use, walkable downtown centers to revitalize the economic, social and cultural climate of Long Island, State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle announced Monday that he has secured $500,000 ...
By Vickie Moller October 08, 2013
Eastern Suffolk BOCES, in partnership with the Medford Multicare Center, Suffolk Independent Living Organization and the Islip Career Center, last month launched a pilot program giving students with disabilities the opportunity to transition to adult ...
By Vickie Moller October 04, 2013
"Exciting News: Construction Begins for Our New School Building This Week," a September 4 news release on the Riverhead Charter School website reads--and Thursday nearly all of the school's 300 students turned out at the ...
By Vickie Moller October 01, 2013
For over 150 years, the Academy of Saint Joseph was a prestigious private all-girls Roman Catholic school conducted by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Brentwood, attracting boarding students from as far away as South ...
By Vickie Moller September 26, 2013
Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tuesday named four Long Island Elementary schools 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools, recognizing them among 286 public and 50 private elementary, middle and high schools nationwide for their academic excellence.
By Vickie Moller September 24, 2013
According to a new report issued in September by the Regional Plan Association, the oldest independent urban research and advocacy organization in America, the lack of affordable rentals on Long Island is damaging its economy.
By Vickie Moller September 19, 2013
Exchanges grew heated as parents, teachers and lawmakers assembled Tuesday at Suffolk Community College's Brentwood campus at a hearing on Common Core testing and related state school policies.
By Vickie Moller September 17, 2013
Online Trading Academy, which has been providing education in the financial markets for six years from its New York City Education Center on Wall Street, has recently expanded its operations to Long Island.
By Vickie Moller September 13, 2013
As major flooding continues across Colorado, National Guard troops Friday used trucks to evacuate Lyons, a remote town north of Boulder, cut off by rising floodwaters.
By Vickie Moller September 11, 2013
After Hurricane Sandy damaged much of the infrastructure for landline telephone service on Fire Island, Verizon proposed abandoning traditional copper connections and replacing them with wireless transmitters in a program called Voice Link.
