9 and often abbreviated as WUFSD) is a public school district headquartered in and serving the community of Wyandanch, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
The parents, supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also asked Dr. Wheaton to order the 2,295 students in the Wyandanch schools (86 per cent of whom were African-American) to be divided equally into the nearby and more affluent, predominantly white Half Hollow Hills, Deer Park, North Babylon, West Babylon and Farmingdale School Districts.
The superintendent noted that "the uprooting of culturally disadvantaged students to schools where the educational program is planned for the middle class would have damaging effects on our community's children."
[9] The LaFrancis Hardiman Early Childhood Center opened for pre-K education in 1969 and was named for a resident who had been killed in the Vietnam War in 1967.
[10][11][12] The original center was replaced in 1999 by the LaFrancis Hardiman Early Childhood Wing of the Martin Luther King Elementary School, having been demolished in 1996.