Education
The results are in – and the passing scores are up – but more than half the kids still did not score proficient in either Math or English. The state test results for English Language Arts (ELA) and math came out today, and overall, more students in grades 3 – 8 during the
Bensonhurst
Young women head to classes at Bishop Kearney High School. (Photo: Todd Maisel/Bklyner)Two Brooklyn lawmakers sent a letter to Chancellor Richard Carranza asking the schools’ head to consider opening a Specialized High School in Southern Brooklyn. They have the perfect location – the building of Bishop Kearney’s High
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The Mott Hall Bridges Academy guidance counselor, Wesley McLeod, center, with two former students, whom he helped counsel after the deaths of their parents. The Brownsville middle school has been praised for its “grief-sensitive” approach to education. Via ChalkbeatBy Zipporah Osei, Chalkbeat New York The Brownsville Old Timers Day annual
Education
P.S.889/I.S.890 on Coney Island Avenue. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Christina Veiga, Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat Major changes are coming to the way New York City students are accepted to high schools. The city will allow students to sit on waiting lists for schools they wanted to attend,
clinton hill
FORT GREENE – The Diocese of Brooklyn announced on Monday that the K-8 parochial school, St. Francis Xavier—Queen of All Saints Catholic Academy [https://sfx-qas.org/], will shutter before the upcoming school year. St. Francis Xavier—Queen of All Saints Catholic Academy, 300 Vanderbilt Avenue, via Google MapsBoard Members and
Boerum Hill
Tevina Willis, lead community organizer for the nonprofit Red Hook Initiative, listened to officials explain rezoning plans for District 15 at a meeting that was held at P.S. 676. By Christina Veiga/ChalkbeatBy Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat NY A coalition of Brooklyn activists is asking the education department to hit
Big Story
GRAVESEND – Yesterday afternoon neighbors across the borough were sharing messages hoping to help identify a 4-year-old girl that was found wandering on her own on Shore Parkway. The girl, who is only identified as Nicole, was discovered on Shore Parkway at about noon yesterday by two Department of Environmental Protection
Borough Park
Bill de Blasio announcing the public health emergency in April. (Ed Reed/ Mayoral Photography Office)WILLIAMSBURG – The measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but a public health emergency was put in place in New York City in April as the disease spread across some Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Big Story
PS 130 is listed among schools with lead paint in classrooms. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Reema Amin, Alex Zimmerman, Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat NY More than 900 New York City elementary school classrooms have tested positive for lead after inspections revealed the presence of peeling, chipped, or otherwise deteriorating lead paint, according
Education
A child is examined for injuries after the school bus crash on Avenue T. (Photo by Todd Maisel).SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Eight people, including six children, were treated for injuries when a car broad-sided their school bus this morning in Sheepshead Bay. The driver was picking up children on the way
Central Brooklyn
State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana Richardson embrace during Myrie’s inauguration at SUNY Downstate in East Flatbush (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS—Local lawmakers are urging the governor to sign a bill that will add Medgar Evers College to the names of two central Brooklyn subway stops.
Announcements
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerAs part of the city’s Vision Zero [https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/264-19/vision-zero-mayor-rapid-expansion-life-saving-speed-camera-program-stronger-law/#/0] program to reduce traffic deaths, the new and expanded speed camera law went into effect on July 11. Speed cameras in school zones have been in NYC since 2014, but