Valley Stream Herald 01-13-2022

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New year, new school leaders Board of Education names North High administrators John Fisher College. Jara has taught Spanish in the district since 2005. In 2017, in Dr. Robin Small was named addition to his teaching role, he Valley Stream North High was appointed North High’s School principal alongside Fabidean of students. He an Jara as an assishas also been the tant principal by the district’s summer Central District program dean of Board of Education students, coached Dec. 14. The two had many school sports been the North teams and provided interim principal professional develand interim assisopment workshops tant principal since for teachers about July. incorporating techSmall has nearly nology in the class25 years of experiroom. ence in education. Small said she She joined the Cenprioritizes listening tral District in 2007 to students as a critias a special educacal component of tion teacher and spesocial and emotional cial education chairlearning and ensurwoman. In 2018, ing “students are Small was named a engaged in the classNorth assistant prin- DR. RoBIN room by assisting cipal. She earned SmAll the teachers and master’s degrees in Principal staff in using what education from the they know of the City College of New students to get them York and Mercy College, a mas- focused inside the classroom.” ter’s in community health from “We always have our own Long Island University, an ideas of how things should be or advanced certificate of school how things should look like,” leadership from Queens College Small said, “but when we sit and her doctorate of education in executive leadership from St. Continued on page 11

By JUAN lASSo and KARINA KoVAC jlasso@liherald.com

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NASSAU CoUNTY ExECUTIVE Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order directing local school boards to vote on whether to require masks in school by the end of the month.

Valley Stream parents react to Blakeman’s mask order By JUAN lASSo and CRISTINA ARRoYo jlasso@liherald.com

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order last week that requires Valley Stream school districts, and all other Nassau County districts, to vote this month on whether to require masks in classrooms. School boards must vote “to determine whether or not parents and children should

be granted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in the classroom,” the executive order, drafted by the county executive’s legal counsel, stated. The orders read in part, “Given the historical data on Covid-19 and the ongoing debate over whether masks are more harmful than beneficial to children and to school environments in general, we should protect the freedoms and statutory rights of students and par-

ents by resting with the parents the decision whether their children should wear masks in school.” The legality of the directive was promptly called into question as school, local and state officials issued statements arguing that Blakeman has no legal say in the matter. State Education Department Commissioner Betty Rosa said that counties do Continued on page 14

hen students are in the building, they are afforded the same structure, routine and attention for seven hours to be successful.


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