Downtown Brooklyn
105 Tech Place via Google MapsDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – As more than one million public school students in NYC returned to classes yesterday, one teen was busted for bringing a gun to school. Adrian Carr, a 17-year-old student at the George Westinghouse Career and Technical Educational High School located in Downtown Brooklyn,
Announcements
Via NYC SchoolFood [http://www.schoolfoodnyc.org/public1/default.aspx?logout=1] Just in time for the new academic year, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Public Advocate Letitia James announced today that lunch will now be provided free to every student at all public schools
bath beach
Photo: The Brannan CampaignThe 43rd District currently has nine candidates running for Vincent Gentile’s City Council seat. Those candidates include four Republicans and five Democrats vying to represent Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach. We’re reaching out to all nine candidates for a Q & A
Bensonhurst
Donna Taylor with Council Member David Greenfield and kids at BSI on April 27. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)The charismatic founding principal of the ultra-selective Brooklyn School of Inquiry announced her resignation in a letter to parents on Monday. “I am proud of our collective effort; together, we created
Central Brooklyn
Groundbreaking at Kolbert Park, May 4. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)On a sunny spring day in May, officials and kids gathered to announce a massive and long-overdue renovation to Midwood’s Kolbert Park, a green space shared by three schools and hundreds of neighbors. The improved Kolbert Playground will
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by Carly Miller)It’s a sight so common on our streets that we often don’t notice: armies of school buses parked on residential blocks on nights and weekends — when commercial vehicles are normally banned. But for some neighbors, it’s more than an eyesore. Perpetual fleets of
Announcements
PS/IS 338 at 510 Coney Island Avenue, rendering by Purcell Architects (Courtesy of Dept. of Education)The new, long-awaited Kensington public school is now open for middle school applicants throughout District 22. In addition to the standard enrollment period (which opened in November), M.S. 890 is open for
Education
Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. (Courtesy: Flickr / Kelly Millea)Students and parents across the city received a letter [http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/schools/ChancellorLetteronImmigration.htm] yesterday assuring them that the Department of Education will protect the right of all students, regardless of their immigration status, to
Central Brooklyn
Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]Roughly 900 city school bus drivers and attendants voted to authorize a strike Wednesday night after rejecting a proposed contract from management, DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161027/red-hook/school-bus-strike-nyc] first reported. Six hundred
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Central Brooklyn
Screenshot courtesy NYC Department of Education. Read the full rezoning proposal here [http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/28FEC0C1-A79F-44C7-9685-728DFE1EC109/0/D22_Rezoning_Official_Presentation_vfinal.pdf] .[Update 9/28 at 12:45pm: The NYC Department of Education’s Office of District Planning released the full proposal online for the rezoning
Central Brooklyn
Draft from earlier in 2016. (Photo submitted by Kate Slevin)Tonight: Speak up for the Department of Education’s planned rezoning for neighboring elementary schools at P.S. 139, P.S. 134, P.S. 217, P.S. 245, P.S.152, P.S. 315, and the upcoming P.S. K338
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Brooklyn School For Career Development at 502 Clermont Ave. in Clinton Hill. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6827817,-73.968803,3a,75y,278.32h,91.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXhc75m5hoOZv-ovKJwJroA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1] )A student brought a loaded gun to his Clinton