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District reviews student data Administrators present update on curriculum, programs, performance ter long-term achievement. “We’re proud to say we have a higher participation rate Oyster Bay-East Norwich across the board than Nassau school officials presented a County, but we do still want to wide-ranging update on curric- engage with parents,” Harrigan ulum, instruction and assess- said. “Kids who participate in ments at the Board of Educa- the exam … correlate with tion’s Dec. 1 meeting, outlining higher Regents exams.” He noted that officials anaprogress on summer curriculyze state assesslum, student perment data in severformance, expandal ways: comparing ed middle school each grade’s results programming and with those in the new initiatives tied students’ prior to national academye a r, c o m p a r i n g ic milestones. year-to-year T h e p re s e n t a tion, delivered by PATRICK HARRIGAN cohorts at the same g r a d e l eve l a n d Patrick Harrigan, Executive director, comparing perforthe district’s execucurriculum and mance with Nassau tive director for instruction County averages. curriculum and “ Yo u c a n s e e instruction, focused on aligning academic programs grades four, five, six and seven with state standards, improving outperforming each metric,” he participation in assessments, said. Harrigan also highlighted strengthening advanced coursework and supporting teachers diagnostic assessments given with expanded professional three times a year beginning in kindergarten, explaining that development. Harrigan said the district most students start out in the intends to align curriculum, “yellow” performance tier but assessments and long-ter m adding that “the focus is on strategic planning. State exam improvement.” Regents exam data, he said, participation remains a priority, he said, because higher par- remains important both for ticipation correlates with betCONTINUED ON PAGE 7
By WILL SHEELINE
wsheeline@liherald.com
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e’re seeing great results.
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The Rev. Roger Williams, of First Baptist Church of Glen Cove, connected current fears in immigrant communities to the historic oppression of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Immigrants are focus of vigil opposing ICE on North Shore By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
On a cold Monday night in Glen Cove, more than 100 residents, advocates, faith leaders and immigrants gathered for the second time this year to call attention to what organizers described as the escalating fear gripping local immigrant communities. The vigil, led by Assemblyman Charles Lavine, featured personal testimony, moral appeals and a renewed push for community-based support networks, as speakers detailed the human impact of immigration enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agents across Long Island. Lavine opened the program by emphasizing the human toll his office has witnessed. Local immigrant families, he said, should not be “fearful about going into a store to get a cup of coffee … or fearful to wait at a school bus with their children.” His office, he noted, has seen “firsthand the devastating impact that these policies are having on people who are innocent, people who are hardworking … their mothers and their fathers.” Lavine also highlighted the Glen Cove Rapid Response Network, a newly formed CONTINUED ON PAGE 9