Just one week before most Long Island students head back to class — and just moments after a tragic school shooting in Minneapolis — Nassau County announced new resources to protect children.

Nassau Executive Bruce Blakeman alongside the county’s top cop Patrick Ryder unveiled the creation of a new “strategic response team” that will be first deployed next week to all public and private schools within the municipality’s borders as students return to class.

The new 40-person team will blanket all of Nassau’s 450 public schools along with religious education buildings, private academies, charters, and even colleges starting on Tuesday, when most students in Nassau return. 3

As part of the plan, cops will now visit each school every day during the start of the school year and patro

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