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Friday, February 14, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 7
LIVING 50 PLUS
UNCONTESTED RACES IN EAST HILLS, ESTATES
CALL TO TRACK BAIL REFORM EFFECTS
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School district presents first budget plans
NORTH SHORE ON ICE
Courses, programs to be added; 2.96 percent tax levy rise sought BY R O S E W E L D ON The Roslyn school district’s initial budget presentation for the 2020-21 school year included a litany of programs to be added in the primary and secondary schools, and administrators expect the tax levy to rise by 2.96 percent. In a presentation to the district’s Board of Trustees last Thursday, Superintendent Allison Brown said that the administration had given the budget the theme to “rethink, reset and rebuild.” “We evolve,” Brown said. “All of our new course offerings are always a rebuild, coming from what we think are right for kids and what kids think is right for them at the middle school and high school.” Brown also said that the district would add a college advisor and new mental health intervention approaches, and that a mental health consultant would be coming onboard in an advisory capac-
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Karina Baez, assistant superintendent of elementary curriculum and instruction, then spoke on new advances for the younger students in the district, including new approaches to morning meetings and implementations of yoga corners and mindfulness rooms to continue the district’s initiatives on mental health. Baez was followed by Michael Goldspiel, assistant superintendent of secondary curriculum and instruction, who said that Roslyn Middle School would implement Google Chromebooks in the seventh grade after having success with them in the eighth-grade classrooms. Goldspiel presented a number of courses to be available for high schoolers next year, chief among them a semester-long elective class entitled Adulting 101: #Wisdom4Life. The idea had come from a day of workshops for seniors held Continued on Page 51
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NORTH SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Hans and Anna pose at the end of a number in “Frozen, Jr.,” presented by students at North Shore Middle School last weekend.
Dying Madoff seeks release from prison BY R O S E W E L D ON Bernard Madoff, a former Roslyn resident who has spent the last 11 years serving a 150year prison sentence, is asking a judge to release him due to
terminal illness. Madoff, 81, who organized the largest Ponzi scheme in American financial history and lost $18 billion for investors in his company Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, is re-
questing a “compassionate release” in order to die at home, citing kidney failure, a need for round-the-clock help and a life expectancy of less than two years. Continued on Page 51
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