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Facing a lack of guidance, NYC charter schools are coming up with their own COVID safety rules
The city has been slow to issue guidance, the state health department has declined to provide recommendations writes Chalkbeat's Alex Zimmerman.
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Opinion: Care about equity? Open the schools!
With safe, effective vaccines in place, there should be no question about a full-scale return to regular schooling, argues Arthur Samuels, Co-Executive Director of MESA Charter High School in Brooklyn.
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Teachers union, city council members propose limiting students allowed in NYC classrooms as COVID looms
City council members and the teachers union want New York City to further limit the number of students allowed in a classroom by amending the city’s administrative code, as COVID threatens to disrupt a third consecutive school year, writes Chalkbeat's Christina Veiga.
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Advocates For Secular Education In Yeshivas Hope 'Mayor Adams Will be Different From Candidate Adams'
The next mayor of New York City, current Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, will be tasked to handle the many education issues facing the city’s 1.7 million schoolchildren. Advocates for secular studies hope that Mayor Adams will enforce the state education guidelines across all the schools, despite what
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Free Full Day Summer Camp Application Deadline 7/20: Summer Rising
Enrollment ends Tuesday for this 100% free, full-day camp for school-aged kids across the city.
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Non-profit Providers And Parents Question Prohibitive And Opaque Afterschool Fees
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NYC to pay for summer school taxis for homeless students and those with disabilities after facing criticism from advocates
The announcement comes one week before the summer program is set to launch for most students, writes Chalkbeat's Alex Zimmerman
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Carroll Gardens Teacher Who Created Virtual Classroom Site Wins $25K Award
A special education teacher in Carroll Gardens who used his self-taught coding skills to improve his students’ virtual learning experience has won a $25,000 award for “teaching excellence.”
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Two Teens Indicted in Fatal Shooting Outside Midwood Charter School
The teenagers, both from Flatbush, were charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Devonte Lewis outside Urban Dove Charter School on April 29th.
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BELA - Bed-Stuy's All Girl Charter School Graduates Its Inaugural Class
“You need five people who play a different role in your life. I don’t believe in the concept of being self-made. None of us are self-made; we all need someone else. So that’s really what my speech was about.”
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‘It was a roller coaster’: A job running a Brooklyn after-school program transformed into triage during the pandemic
Schools like P.S. 89 have long served as safety nets for parents and students by forging strong bonds with community organizations. But those needs took on a new urgency during the pandemic.
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Parents on NYC School Survey: “There is a strong feeling that none of it matters.”
“My personal feelings on this survey,” she says, “Is that it really did not even begin to ask questions about remote learning, about complications with technology or remote classrooms."