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Parents, residents demand School District 24 hiring reforms By NICOlE AlCINDOR nalcindor@liherald.com
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Showing up for the love Mary Jones led chants at a demonstration on Sunrise Highway as part of a “Rally for Love” on Saturday. Valley Streamers organized the demonstration as a rebuke of the politics of divisiveness they say has risen in prominence in recent years. Story, more photos, Page 3.
A group of roughly two dozen parents and residents gathered at the District 24 Board of Education meeting on Oct. 21 to denounce what they said was a lack of diversity among district teachers, and to ask for greater inclusivity. District 24 parent Cristina Arroyo led the calls, demanding reform in the administration’s teacher-hiring process in a district where 86 percent of the children are students of color and 95 percent of the teachers are white. “Your diversity recruitment
initiatives are not enough . . . We need to see outcomes. We need to see results,” said Arroyo, who has two children in the district. She called on the administration to take concrete steps to address the disparity, including the formation of a task force of people within the district, but outside the administration, to bring in new perspectives and suggestions. “We understand that lack of diversity in teaching staff is not necessarily the fault of any one individual. This is ingrained. This is history,” she said. “Therefore, you need new blood, new faces and new experts to Continued on page 8
Forever Young Kelly memorial campaign gets under way By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com
Nearly 32 years after her death, friends of Kelly Tinyes have begun the Forever Young Kelly Brick Campaign, and are encouraging people to buy personalized bricks and benches in Grant Park in Hewlett, her favorite park. On March 3, 1989, Tinyes, a 13-year-old Woodmere Middle School student, was babysitting her younger brother, Richard, at their Valley Stream home when they got a phone call from a man who said his name was John. Kelly told Richard that she was heading to a
friend’s for a little saying it was acciwhile. She never dental. Dubbed the returned. Roughly “Hell on Horton 24 hours later, she Road” murder, the was found dead in a case attracted n e i g h b o r ’s b a s e national attention m e n t . Wi t h i n a for its brutality, and month, police was significant in arrested 21-year-old that it was one of bodybuilder Robert the first cases in the Golub, who lived in United States to rely Kelly Tinyes the house, after a on DNA evidence to bloody handprint secure a conviction. was discovered on A Hewlett resithe basement doorway. dent named Jensaid that the After a nearly yearlong trial, brick and bench memorials are Golub was convicted of second- a positive way to remember her degree murder and sentenced friend. (Jen did not want her to 25 years to life in prison. He last name used, because she later admitted to the killing, remains in fear of Golub,
though he is still in prison and was most recently denied parole last November.) “Kelly’s murder devastated the entire community, and life has never been quite the same since,” Jen said “Back in 1989, most Friday nights would be spent at Grant Park to hang out and ice skate. We’ve teamed up with the Hewlett-Woodmere
Public Schools Endowment Fund and created plans for a memorial at Grant Park.” The endowment fund is an independent organization of alumni, families and friends who suppor t public-school activities and programs in the Hewlett-Woodmere district. The funds being raised now by Continued on page 14