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Local Teacher Booted From Classroom Due To Scandalous Photo

The photo of Ramirez and the former student, which has made rounds in the school. (via Daily News)A teacher at Origins High School, one of the new schools located at the former Sheepshead Bay High School (3000 Avenue X), was removed from the classroom and sent to the infamous

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Students Clean The Streets Around Sheepshead High School Campus

Kudos to the kids from the New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math & Science III, one of the publicly-funded charter schools that moved into the Sheepshead Bay High School campus (3000 Avenue X) last fall. These kids took to the streets around the school last week, cleaning sidewalks and

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Report: DOE Stacked Deck Against Sheepshead Bay High School

From a rally to save the school when it faced closure in 2010.Sheepshead Bay High School, which the city decided to “phase out” at the end of last semester due to poor performance, had the deck stacked against them by Department of Education policies that overloaded them with difficult

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BREAKING: Bomb Squad Called To Sheepshead Bay High School (Updated)

The NYPD’s bomb squad has been called to Sheepshead Bay High School at 3000 Avenue X, after authorities may have found what’s believed to be an explosive device in the basement of the school. A call came over police scanners at approximately 10:20 a.m., saying that

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Panel Votes To Close Sheepshead Bay H.S., 21 Others

Source: Wikimedia CommonsThe Panel for Educational Policy, which has the final say on closing schools in New York City, voted last night to approve plans to phase out and ultimately shutter Sheepshead Bay High School and 21 other schools at the end of this semester. Much like the closure hearing

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City Renews Attempt To Shutter Sheepshead Bay H.S.

Sheepshead Bay High School students protesting the city’s closure attempts in the last school year. (Photo: Robert Fernandez)The third time’s the charm? New York City’s school administrators seem to hope so. For the third time in three years, the Department of Education has again set its

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Sheepshead Bay HS Teacher Says She Was Pressured To Pass Failing Students

Source: Wikimedia CommonsA Sheepshead Bay High School teacher is speaking out about feeling pressured to “teach to the test,” saying that administrators from the soon-to-be Academy of Career Exploration of Sheepshead Bay threatened she raise the test scores of two failing students so they could graduate. Erica Bloom, a 36-year-old