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G.C. Special Ed PTA plans a restart in 2026 no,” Damiano recalled. “I’m the type of person that I don’t take no very lightly.” SEPTA, she learned, had been For the first time in seven years, the Glen Cove School Dis- dismantled seven years earlier trict has reinstated its Special because no one was willing to Education Parent Teacher Asso- run it. Attempts to re-establish it ciation, marking a significant were delayed by PTA rules shift in parent advocacy and spe- requiring a multi-year waiting cial education engagement in period before a dissolved unit the community. The revival could return. Parents of chilbecame official on Oct. 16, fol- dren with disabilities continued asking for its lowing months of revival, but with behind-the-scenes no leadership steporganizing led by ping forward, the Glen Cove parent district remained and educator without the supMarisa Damiano, port group. who will serve as Damiano began SEPTA’s new presireaching out to coldent. For Damiano, leagues and PTA the return of the contacts until, by association was chance, a teacher not only overdue — friend connected it was personal. her with Kate Damiano, a sec- ALEXA DOESCHNER Kelly, an associate ond-grade teacher Superintendent of Nassau Region at E.M. Baker School, in Great Neck, and the PTAs, who specializes in helping mother of four children in the districts launch or restore speGlen Cove district, said she cial education PTA units. began asking questions when “Everything was aligned,” her youngest child, Nicholas, Damiano said. “I was meant to who is autistic, and has atten- bring it back.” As she navigated the reintion deficit disorder and speech and language needs, entered statement process, she also Deasy Elementary School last began raising concerns with disyear as a first-grader. “I asked, is trict administrators about how there a SEPTA? And they said
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Assemblyman Charles Lavine, left, organized the Nov. 13 vigil at the Glen Street Long Island Rail Road station, where ICE arrests took place early this year. Angel Reyes Rivas, right, spoke about immigrant families living in fear. Beside him was his daughter, Zoe, 6.
Glen St. vigil pans ICE raids By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
When Angel Reyes Rivas approached the microphone at the Glen Street Long Island Rail Road station last week, he barely got a few sentences out before his voice cracked. The 35-year-old Glen Cove resident — known to many as “the phone repair guy” — wiped away tears as he looked over the crowd of neighbors, faith leaders and advocates gathered under the station lights. Rivas has lived in Glen Cove since he was a teenager. He came to the city from Peru to reunite with his mother and brother, and enrolled at Glen Cove High School “I came to Glen Cove High School started as an ESL student, level one,” he recalled. “It took me a
couple years, but I always fell in love with the language. And that’s also why I became an English major.” Rivas’s life here, however, has been shaped by the precariousness of immigration status. He arrived with a visa at age 15, and later overstayed it. For years, he said, he had “no sort of notion of what it means to be undocumented” — until the system crashed into his family. His mother, who had missed court dates for traffic tickets out of fear of being deported, was ultimately arrested, detained at the Nassau County jail and sent back to Peru. Angel was 18, a junior in high school, when it happened. “That was the first big thing that opened my eyes to the system,” he said. Forced to CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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