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Friday, April 27, 2018
Vol. 6, No. 17
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F. HILL RESIDENT: PLAN DEMS TO BACK KAPLAN IS ANTI-CHRISTMAS VS. PHILLIPS FOR SENATE
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Opt-outs low for N. Shore
Most students take state tests BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I , JANELLE CL AUSEN, REBECCA KL AR AND LUKE TORRANCE Thousands of Nassau County students opted out of the state’s English Language Arts test last week, but far fewer students on the North Shore chose not to participate than in the rest of the county. The North Shore in general has lower opt-out rates than average on Long Island, and the Herricks school district has the lowest rate, with only 11.9 percent of the students opting out. According to data accumulated by Newsday, the opt-out rate across Long Island’s school districts – save for nine who did not report – was 49.1 percent overall. A majority of students opted out in 53 of Long Island’s school districts and 62 districts reported numbers of 49 percent or lower. Continued on Page 84
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Show of Skills Roslyn Village Gallery owner Marsha Tarlow hangs a painting for the “Through the Eyes of Autism” art show and sale from 3 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday featuring the works of Alex Leto, Andrew King and Alexa Krevatas. See story on page 29.
Dad needed a kidney. I had 1 to give A Blank Slate Media reporter tells her story of helping her ailing father BY R E B ECC A K L A R
his money on overpriced espressos and baguettes. He was bed-bound in the When my dad was first admitted to the hospital for kidney New York-Presbyterian intensive failure I was in Paris spending care unit. I was at the Louvre pretending to enjoy ancient art while thinking of Instagram captions. Nearly two years later he was back there in a hospital bed. This time I was
there, too. Not visiting but in a bed of my own around the corner. I’d like to say I put a lot of thought into deciding to donate my kidney to my dad. But I didn’t. It seemed like an obvious choice from the start; I had an extra and he needed one. Looking back a couple weeks after
the surgery, I think I should have put more thought into it than when I loan a friend an iPhone charger. The truth is the outcome would have been the same. I was determined to donate. It was only a matter of convincing my dad – an art I’ve fine-tuned over the last two decades. Continued on Page 26
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