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Friday, August 28, 2020
Vol. 69, No. 35
N E W H Y D E PA R K
HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY
S. FLORAL PARK MAN GETS 20 YEARS
CUOMO EASES VOTING RULES
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Districts unveil official plans for reopenings Herricks, GCP-NHP to offer 5-day in-person for elementary schools BY E LL I OT W E L D Beginning Sept. 3, the Herricks school district will welcome students in grades K-5 back to inperson learning five days a week and students in grades 6-12 into a hybrid learning model in which they will be split into two groups, according to the district’s reopening plan. The middle and high school cohorts will alternate days in school in a four-day school week. Siblings will be kept in the same cohort so they can attend school on the same day. “The school district considers in-person services a priority for our youngest and high needs students,” the district reopening plan states. Superintendent Fino Celano said approximately 25% of the student body has opted for remote learning and the district has received positive feedback from parents and staff on its plan.
The district’s website said if the state Department of Health recommends that the district changes to remote classes, it has the ability to quickly switch one class, school or the entire district over to online classes. As the district prepares to welcome students back to in-person classes, administrators are seeking ways to reduce the number of people in the building at once and give a sense of safety to as many students, teachers and parents as possible. Thirty teachers have opted to work completely from home, according to Herricks Teachers’ Association President Nidya Degliomini. Degliomini said that because of the large variation in students’ class schedules in grades 6-12, teachers who work with these grades are not able to work from home. Teachers who are working with grades K-5 did have the Continued on Page 44
PHOTO BY ELLIOT WELD
Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave a coronavirus briefing at Clinton G. Martin Park Monday, announcing the state’s infection rate had hit a new low. See story on page 6.
22 years later, family still searching for missing son BY E LL I OT W E L D The morning of Aug. 26, 1998, began like any other for Victoria Tsui of New Hyde Park. She got up and had to go to work. She briefly said “hel-
lo” to her younger brother, Yim Yeung Tsui, who went by Jimmy, and expected to see him later that day. However, that was the last time anyone has seen Jimmy Tsui. Jimmy Tsui was 20 at the
time and, to this day, his family has no idea what happened to him. His parents were in Australia visiting family at the time of his disappearance. They flew home when they heard he was Continued on Page 43
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