Board approves Civic Quest and expanded AP/dual‑enrollment offerings
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Summary
The Huntington board approved a series of curriculum proposals on March 24 including a new seventh‑grade Civic Quest course, AP Business with Personal Finance, AP/college calculus and precalculus partnerships with Siena College, Stony Brook ACE dual‑enrollment courses, forensic science dual credit, and a revised Computer Science & Technology 7 course.
The Huntington Union Free School District Board of Education approved multiple curriculum proposals and course additions at its March 24 meeting, advancing new college‑level and career‑focused pathways for high‑school students and a new full‑cohort civic course for seventh graders.
Highlights approved by the board included: - Civic Quest: a semester‑long, alternating‑day seventh‑grade course focused on issue‑based civic learning, deliberation and community action. The presentation said the course would be taught by existing staff and would not be limited to an enrichment cohort. - AP Business with Personal Finance: an introductory AP course in business principles and personal finance; Huntington piloted portions of the course in recent years. - College and AP Calculus / AP Precalculus (Siena College): dual‑enrollment arrangements with Siena College to provide college credits (4 credits for calculus at $300 total; 3 credits for precalculus at $225 total) with fee waivers for students who qualify for free or reduced‑price lunch. - College Career and Financial Management: a half‑year elective aligned with Stony Brook University's ACE program that can grant 3 college credits (reduced fees for eligible students). - College Forensics 1 and 2: dual‑enrollment for introductory forensic science aligned to Siena coursework, with reduced fees for eligible students. - Computer Science & Technology 7: consolidation of Technology 7 and Computer Science into a single course offering for the intermediate level that aligns with Civic Quest.
District staff emphasized that dual‑enrollment fees are reduced or waived for eligible students and that the curricular changes are designed to broaden access to college‑level coursework, not to limit it to traditional AP cohorts. "This is really for everybody," the curriculum presenter said when asked whether courses are intended only for top‑level students.
What happens next: approved course proposals will be incorporated into the 2026–27 program of studies; administrators said they will complete curricular alignment over the summer so required financial‑literacy standards are met for all students.
