Rockville Centre proposes wider course options for 2025–26: AP cybersecurity, computational engineering and college partnerships

At the Jan. 9 meeting of the Rockville Centre Board of Education, Superintendent Gavin presented proposed course and curricular changes the district would seek to offer in 2025–26, emphasizing pathways to industry credentials and to college‑level experiences.

Gavin described a half‑year Financial Investments course that would expand the district’s personal‑finance offerings and offer students the option to visit Molloy College’s Bloomberg lab about six times during that half‑year for Bloomberg certification. He said students could take the class without pursuing Bloomberg certification and that the district would rotate visits to avoid repeated class absences. Gavin noted that bringing a full Bloomberg lab in‑house is expensive and cited other districts’ Bloomberg lab costs as an example of significant investment.

He also proposed a new Computational…