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Announcements

Treyger Calls On State Senate At Rally As Clock Ticks on Speed Camera Programs

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGRAVESEND – With a program for speed cameras outside schools set to expire on July 25, Council Member Mark Treyger, along with Transportation Alternatives [https://www.transalt.org/], Families for Safe Streets [https://www.transalt.org/familiesforsafestreets], and the Department of Education, are calling on state senators to

Carroll Gardens

District 15 middle schools may eliminate academic “screening” in effort to integrate

The education department launched a community engagement effort in District 15 as parents, educators and activists try to devise a plan to address segregation in the Brooklyn district. By Christina VeigaBy Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/] PARK SLOPE – In a Brooklyn district where middle schools are sharply divided

Announcements

Four schools will pilot kosher and halal school lunches next year

CENTRAL BROOKLYN – Parents across Brooklyn have been working for years with local schools to make school lunches available to their children [/after-hundreds-of-petition-signatures-lobbying-for-community-support-parents-win-battle-for-a-healthier-menu-at-ps-217-ditmas-park/] who follow kosher or halal diets at home. We wrote back in 2015, about parents at PS217, a large, diverse elementary school on Coney Island Avenue, who won

Bed Stuy

Success Academy fights to open a middle school, because P.S. 25 failed to close

P.S. 25 Eubie Blake SchoolBedford Stuyvesant – When the Hon. Judge Levine issued a stay on May 24th to keep P.S. 25 Eubie Blake open [/p-s-25-will-stay-open-for-another-year/] while the lawsuit parents have brought to keep it open [/parents-file-lawsuit-to-keep-the-best-elementary-school-in-district-16-open/] gets resolved, what was not discussed was the impact this decision would

bath beach

Why so many Southern Brooklyn parents worry about Mayor’s plan to reform Specialized High School admissions

Parents gathered on Tuesday in Bensonhurst to talk about SHSAT with Eric Adams, who supports the plan, at a meeting that was closed to the press.Southern Brooklyn – Mayor de Blasio plans to radically change the racial composition at Specialized High Schools [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/281-18/mayor-de-blasio-chancellor-carranza-plan-improve-diversity-specialized-high/

Big Story

Neighbors Face Off With A New Orthodox School In Kensington As Boro Park Bursts At The Seams

KENSINGTON/BORO PARK – Last Thursday night about 40 residents finally gathered at a meeting with the Clara Street School that they had been asking for for 9 months [/cb12-april-meeting-schools-garbage-process/], hoping to address issues of idling school buses, garbage, noisy generators, and constant evening events at the school. The clash is

Central Brooklyn

Carranza didn’t expect ‘screening’ comments to create such an uproar

Chancellor Richard Carranza visits the Bronx Charter School for Excellence and speaks to Charlene Reid, the network’s Chief Executive Officer. PHOTO: Monica DisareBy Monica Disare. [https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/mdisare/] A week after New York City’s new schools chief criticized competitive admissions [https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/

Announcements

Health Department urges residents to protect themselves from mosquito- and tick-borne illnesses (PSA)

Last year, there were 21 cases of West Nile virus in the city, and two deaths were attributed to the disease. There were 1,083 reports of Lyme disease among New Yorkers. The following is from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: As summer nears, the Health Department reminds

Bed Stuy

P.S. 25 will stay open for another year

Advocates, plaintiffs and their lawyer, Laura D. Barbieri after the hearing. BEDFORD STUYVESANT – In April of this year, three parents of students at P.S. 25 Eubie Blake elementary school filed a suit against the Department of Education over closure of the school. Yesterday Judge Hon Katherine A Levine extended

Announcements

BPL Launches City’s First Musical Instrument Lending Library

PROSPECT HEIGHTS – The Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch launched NYC’s first Musical Instrument Lending Library Wednesday afternoon with a kick-off event featuring displays of the music-makers available to check-out and performances by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Youth Ensemble as well as the BPL’s own house band

Education

New York City lawmakers press Richard Carranza on paid parental leave, counselors, and school accessibility

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza (left) at a press conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Photo by Christina Veiga.By Alex Zimmerman, [https://www.chalkbeat.org/author/azimmerman/]Chalkbeat [https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/05/22/new-york-city-lawmakers-press-richard-carranza-on-paid-parental-leave-counselors-and-school-accessibility/?utm_source=republish&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=republish] Richard

Arts & Culture

Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema’s First Graduating Class Produces Films As Varied And Diverse As Its Students

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Works created by the first graduating class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/schools/feirstein.php] will be screened for an invitation-only audience of industry professionals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] on