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Schools' go-get-'em attitude: Whitman, Westbury high removed from failed schools list after effort to go get pupils who might miss tests.

Newsday (Melville, NY)

| September 13, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Newsday. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: John Hildebrand

Sep. 13--Try dodging a test in the South Huntington School District, and you might just see a school minibus pulling up to your house with a dean of students aboard. The bus sweeps are part of redoubled efforts at the district's Walt Whitman High School to make sure students show up for state exams. And those efforts have proved successful -- so much that Walt Whitman is one of 29 high schools statewide removed yesterday from Albany's annual list of those failing to meet academic standards. "If students aren't here, we're going to get them," said James Polansky, Whitman's principal the past two years. Another Long Island high…

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