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Easter egg extravaganza Gia Abshire, 3, of East Meadow, was excited to start tearing into her eggs to see what kind of treats she got at the Easter egg hunt held in Diane Radtke’s backyard. More photos, Page 3.
‘Garden of Dreams’ exhibit will be open to the public in June year,” Diana said. “It depends how ambitious we want each exhibit to be, and how much The AHRC Nassau East time it takes to prepare.” Meadow Art gallery is getting AHRC Nassau is a chapter of ready for its upcoming exhibit The Arc of New York, a nonprof“Garden of it organization that Dreams,” which is helps people with set to open in June. developmental disThe exhibit will feaabilities. There are ture art from the about 32 other members of AHRC, AHRC programs on who live with intelLong Island, but the lectual and developEast Meadow locamental disabilities. tion is the only one This is not the that has a specific first exhibit for the focus, Lisa Moosgallery, which is meuller, the gallery l o c at e d o n E a s t manager, explained. Meadow Avenue. In The other locations the past it has disfocus more on comp l aye d a r t wo rk munity service. The inspired by Vincent point of these proVan Gogh and by lISA grams, Moosmueller safari life. The group said, is community of artists who make MooSMuEllER integration and selfup AHRC’s art gal- Director, advocacy. lery vote on the AHRC Nassau East “These guys are theme and then being their own self Meadow Art gallery work on their pieces advocates, and — either with a menthey’re speaking up tor or individually — with all and letting everybody know types of media. what’s important to them,” she This exhibit has been a work said. “Through the day program in progress since before the new we tried to link them to that year, said Jason Diana, the pro- interest so we’re kind of like an gram coordinator. “We usually try to do two to three exhibits a Continued on page 16
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East Meadow School District to expand integrated co-teaching By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com
The East Meadow School District is expected to expand its integrated co-teaching program to the elementary level next year, administrators announced during a budget presentation at the Board of Education meeting on March 23. For the past four years, the program has been used on the
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secondary level. Now it is to be put into effect in the district’s five elementary schools. ICT dates to the 1970s, according to Betsy Lashin, the district’s director of special education and pupil personnel services. An ICT classroom consists of a general education teacher and a special education teacher providing instruction together to students who have learning disabilities and those who don’t.
According to the budget presentation, the funding for the program expansion — which will add 24 new teachers — will come from grant funds from the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus rescue package, the budget itself and additional funds from state aid. The plan is to use twothirds of the grant money, extra state aid and one-third of the general budget to fund the proContinued on page 14
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