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The faces of James Madison High School’s 750 seniors decorate the outside of the school. Bruce Cotler
James Madison
hangs portraits
to salute seniors
BY JESSICA PARKS
After Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
May 1 executive order
shuttering public schools
through the duration of the
academic year, educators at
James Madison High School
launched a creative effort to
surround the school with portraits
of their 750 seniors —
paying tribute to the soon-tobe
graduates, who won’t have
the chance to walk across the
stage and receive their diplomas.
“We wanted to do something
to make them smile,”
said James Madison’s principal,
Jodie Cohen.
Seniors at the Sheepshead
Bay high school — which has
educated dozens of notable
alumni including Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, Supreme
Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, and singer
Carole King — expressed sadness
that they wouldn’t set
foot in the building before
graduation, administrators
said.
“We have been hosting a
lot of meetings with our seniors,
and hearing what they
are saying, ‘If I would have
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