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D’Esposito claims victory over Gillen in congressional race By KYlE CHIN kchin@liherald.com
Anthony D’Esposito says he’s going to Washington. But as the clock struck midnight, turning Election Day into Wednesday, his Democratic opponent, Laura Gillen, wasn’t quite ready to concede the 4th Congressional District race. “We’re going to wait until every vote is counted,” Gillen told supporters in Freeport late Tuesday night. “It’s an extremely close race. There’s still a lot of ballots out there.” As Gillen spoke, however, unofficial election returns from Nassau County showed D’Esposito leading her by 8,000 votes, with 87 percent of precincts reporting. A half-hour later, the county Board of Elections completed the counting, increasing D’Esposito’s lead to 10,000 votes. It was 51.9 percent for D’Eposito out of the more than 266,000 votes counted, compared with Gillen’s 48.1 percent. D’Esposito, a former New York City police detective from
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varied with each grade level. The district’s testing data for children in third through The coronavirus pandemic e i g h t h g r a d e fo l l ow s t at e interrupted and upended tradi- trends, with higher scores in tional education, with schools English Language Arts than in pivoting as quickly as they math. could from in-person instruc“We match or exceed state tion to remote averages for the learning, and then t h i rd t o e i g h t h devising hybrid cohort in ELA,” models. Pedersen said. “In Two and a half math, our economyears later, the ically disadvanpandemic’s effects taged students still linger. Data performed slightly from tests given to higher that statefourth- and eighthwide data. There’s graders across the so many ways to c o u n t r y by t h e look at numbers — National Assesswe focus on lookment of Educaing at the skills.” t i o n a l P ro g re s s BRIAN o’CoNNEll L aw r e n c e show a decline in head of school, teachers, Pedersen math and reading Lawrence Woodmere said, have adapted comprehension their instructional Academy skills. methods to meet To bl u n t t h e students’ needs. impact, schools across the Five By analyzing patterns of wrong Towns have been monitoring answers on standardized tests, students to shore up their skills teachers have come to underand fill in the learning gaps stand what they need to focus created by online learning. on, she added. Lawrence School District “We are strongly focusing on Superintendent Ann Pedersen wildly important goals for our said that the pandemic’s effects students,” Pedersen said, using on students’ academic, social and emotional development Continued on page 9
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TowN of HEMpSTEAD Councilman Anthony D’Esposito was leading Laura Gillen in the race to succeed Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. Island Park, appeared to have eked out a victory, and in the process flipped a seat from Democratic to Republican control. “I want to thank each and every one of you in this room,” D’Esposito told supporters in Baldwin. “You’ve worked hard
and you’ve knocked on doors. You’ve made the phone calls. You’ve dug into your pockets to get us across this finish line. We took a seat that’s been in Democratic hands for 25 years.” D’Esposito will succeed KathContinued on page 17
Winner
opponent
Governor
Lee Zeldin (R)..................... 54% Kathy Hochul (D)............... 46%
Comptroller
Thomas DiNapoli (D)........ 57% Paul Rodriguez (R)............ 40%
Attorney General
Letitia James (D)............... 56% Michael Henry (R)............. 42%
U.S. Senator
Chuck Schumer (D)........... 58% Joe Pinton (R).................... 39%
Congressional District 4
Anthony D’Esposito (R).... 52% Laura Gillen (D)................. 48%
Senate District 9
Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R)... 56% Kenneth Moore (D)........... 44%
Assembly District 20
Ari Brown (R)..................... 62%
Michael Delury (D).......... 38%
Hempstead Town Council Melissa Miller (R).............. 59% Anthony Cruz (D).............. 41% unofficlal results as of midnight eSt tuesday
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key piece was to have that face-to-face teacher looking a student in the eye. Or a Zoom eye.