Central Brooklyn
Calvin Brown with his daughter, Jamaica. (Photo: Corner Media)Yesterday, thousands of children, parents, teachers and school administrators gathered in Prospect Park, calling on the De Blasio administration to allow for the creation of more charter schools in New York City. Students from all five boroughs traveled to Prospect Park
Education
Calvin Brown with his daughter, Jamaica. (Photo: Corner Media)[This story was updated at 1:25pm, 9/29/16.] Yesterday, thousands of children, parents, teachers and school administrators gathered in Prospect Park calling on the De Blasio administration to allow for the creation of more charter schools in New York
Central Brooklyn
Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]A rally in Prospect Park on Wednesday, September 28 will bring traffic congestion and about 350 buses to drop off rally attendees, according to a community notice [http://parkslopestoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016_FES_
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Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]A rally in Prospect Park on Wednesday, September 28 will bring traffic congestion and about 350 buses to drop off rally attendees, according to a community notice [/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016_FES_Rally_Community_Notice.
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanDespite the hoopla several years ago [/charter-school-mess-grows/#.V3VTGpMrLos] over the city’s decision to create an elementary-level charter school in the same building as a Bensonhurst middle school, the union seems to working out better than expected. Two years after the controversial co-location of the Eva Moskowitz-run
Bensonhurst
Photo courtesy of Success Academy Bensonhurst/FacebookThe charter school network Success Academy (SA) [http://www.successacademies.org/] is making headlines again — this time because it has cancelled all of its pre-k classes as it heads to court over an ongoing contract dispute with the de Blasio administration. NY1 reports [http:
Bensonhurst
Photo courtesy of Success Academy Bensonhurst [https://www.facebook.com/SABensonhurst/photos/a.808354049215458.1073741828.785002684883928/1133043643413162/?type=3&theater] /FacebookThere was a unexpectedly positive profile [http://www.businessinsider.in/I-toured-a-NYC-school-thats-part-of-a-contentious-network-loved-by-Wall-Street-and-I-was-surprised-by-what-I-saw/articleshow/51932201.cms] of our neighborhood’s branch of Success Academy (SA) — the controversial charter school franchise started
Bensonhurst
Never before have parents had so many options when it comes to choosing a pre-kindergarten program. With the rapid expansion of the free UPK (Universal Pre-K) program — including its most recent re-incarnation, known as “Pre-K for All” — a great majority of pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds are free, and full-day free
Education
Photo courtesy of Del Scorcho [https://www.flickr.com/photos/delscorchosauce/136584515].Almost everyone in New York City has an opinion about charter schools and, specifically, the proliferation of Success Academy schools. Now, the parent and community leaders of Community Education Council [School] District 13 [http://cec13.org/] have voiced
Candido Brown
Photo courtesy of Del Scorcho [https://www.flickr.com/photos/delscorchosauce/136584515].The latest controversy to enter the discourse over New York City’s charter schools comes courtesy of the New York Times, which ran a story [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/nyregion/at-a-success-academy-charter-school-singling-out-pupils-who-have-got-to-go.html?_r=2&
charter schools
Source: CEC 21 via FacebookDistrict 21 families have a strong message for charter schools: Stay away! Though it was a school night, more than 75 parents and teachers rallied outside I.S. 288 David A. Boody Tuesday prior to a Department of Education [DOE] hearing on two charter schools [http:
brooklyn urban garden school
Students celebrate winning the Golden Apple and Golden Shovel Awards for the school’s sustainability work. Photo courtesy of BUGS.The Brooklyn Urban Garden School [http://www.bugsbrooklyn.org/] (BUGS) opened in the fall of 2013 with its first 6th grade class, and has since grown in the former Bishop
charter schools
Middle school applications for the 2015-2016 school year are now available at elementary schools across the city. How to apply Students in 5th grade and 6th grade (for K-6 elementary schools) can apply to middle schools in their district, as well as certain boroughwide and citywide schools. Each student will
Events
Catch a showing of Eddie Murphy’s “Coming to America” this Sunday, June 22 at Habana Outpost at 757 Fulton Street. (Photo by Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/])Don’t sit inside on the couch all summer. You can hang with your neighbors and get your pop
3000 ave x
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
24th ave
Source: schools.nyc.govThe planned protest of a co-location proposal at I.S. 281 Joseph B. Cavallaro Junior High School (8787 24th Avenue) drew hundreds of concerned parents, students and educators to the Monday evening hearing. The proposal is one of many last-minute attempts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to shove