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Bed Stuy

New Lawsuit Seeks Information On School Reopening Discussions In District 16

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza tour P.S. 59 in Brooklyn with labor leaders. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Bed-Stuy’s Community Education Council of (CEC) 16 is taking legal action against the Department of Education (DOE) related to a decision that allows four schools in the

Central Brooklyn

NYC scales back the amount of live instruction students are guaranteed this fall

Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability with Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and Susan Haskell, Deputy Commissioner, Youth Services DYCD. City Hall. Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Christina Veiga, Reema Amin, and Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/9/

Announcements

P.S. 139 Shuts Down For 24 Hours After Second Confirmed Coronavirus Case

Photo by David Ballew [https://unsplash.com/@daveballew?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] DITMAS PARK – P.S. 139 will be shutting down for 24 hours

Central Brooklyn

With a week left to reopen, can Mayor de Blasio convince NYC that school buildings are safe?

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza tour P.S. 59 in Brooklyn with labor leaders on Sept. 2, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Christina Veiga and Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/9/14/21437251/bill-de-blasio-nyc-school-reopening] Crouched over laptops and sitting in

Central Brooklyn

City Of Water Day – Celebrating Island Living Across NYC

This Saturday, September 12, we celebrate our waterfront. The event is organized by Waterfront Alliance [https://waterfrontalliance.org/who-we-are/about-us/] who has been working for 13 years to connect communities to and advocate for resilient, revitalized, and accessible coastline for all. Out of the 500 some miles of waterfront across

Central Brooklyn

Blended or Remote – Public School Parents Speak About How They Made Their Decisions

Remote school. Photo by Kelly Sikkema [https://unsplash.com/@kellysikkema?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/remote-learning?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] With school starting next week, after a 10-day delay [/nyc-school-re-opening-pushed-back-ten-days/

Central Brooklyn

Teachers From The School With One Of The First COVID-19 Cases Ring Alarm Bells On How Poorly Protocols Work

Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Teachers from MS88, one of two Brooklyn Schools schools (PS 1 is the other) where positive cases of COVID – 19 were reported [/in-an-early-test-for-nyc-two-schools-report-positive-cases-of-covid-19/] among staff on the second day of school have posted an open letter [https://morecaucusnyc.org/2020/09/10/an-open-letter-from-ms88-teachers/] highlighting

COVID-19

In an early test for NYC, two schools report positive cases of COVID-19

Photo by David Ballew [https://unsplash.com/@daveballew?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Reema Amin, Alex Zimmerman, and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https:

Central Brooklyn

NYC ventilation reports say most classrooms are safe. Educators aren’t convinced.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza tour Bronx Collaborative High School to observe ventilation inspections and have a discussion with parents about school reopening. Bronx Collaborative High School. Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/

Business

“I don’t want any New Yorker to leave.” Scott Stringer Formally Enters Race for Mayor.

Campaign photo.Brooklyn showed up for Manhattan neighbor and current City Comptroller Scott Stringer [https://stringerformayor.com/] as he formally announced his run for the Mayor in the 2021 local elections yesterday. State Senators Julia Salazar and Brian Kavanagh, as well as Assemblyman Robert Carroll endorsed him and were there

Central Brooklyn

Parents Call BS On Mayor And UFT Deal – OPINION

BY PRESS NYC: PARENTS FOR RESPONSIVE, EQUITABLE, SAFE SCHOOLS A day after a 7-hour City Council Education Committee hearing where, as at the August 19th PEP, students, parents, and educators spoke out [http://tiny.cc/delayletters] in unity against the reopening of school buildings, it’s becoming ever clearer that

Central Brooklyn

Question Of The Day: Why Can’t Remote School Start On Sept. 10?

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. City Hall. Monday, August 24, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Yesterday’s big announcement was that public school reopening is to be delayed [/nyc-school-re-opening-pushed-back-ten-days/] from September 10 to September 16 for remote, and September 21 for blended cohorts, to allow for school buildings to