Oliver Roberts, the counsel for the school district and the board of education, wrote in the letter that the stakes of this case extend beyond Massapequa. “If New York State succeeds in ...

“The US Department of Education will not stand by as the state of New York attempts to rewrite history and deny the town of Massapequa the right to celebrate its heritage in its schools,” said ...

Memo to the stick-in-the-mud Karens at the State Education Department: Let Massapequa High School keep ... administration will encourage that. But New York schools certainly shouldn’t be forced ...

But the New York State Education Department swiftly pushed back saying "If members of the Massapequa Board of Education are genuinely interested in honoring and respecting Long Island’s Native ...

Massapequa and Wantagh were part of a group that unsuccessfully sued the New York State Board of Regents to keep their monikers in defiance of a 2023 mandate to remove all Native American team ...