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Education

A Modern School: P.S. 97 in Gravesend Gets New Classrooms And A Greenhouse

Rendering of the new rooftop garden planned for P.S. 97 in Gravesend. (Image: NYC School Construction Authority)A crowded Gravesend public school will get a long-awaited extension, including a new greenhouse facility and roof garden, by the fall of this year. The $70 million addition to P.S. 97,

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NYC Schools Chancellor: Why I Dare to Dream Big

Meisha Porter, New York City Schools Chancellor. Image courtesy of NYC Department of Education.By Meisha Porter, New York City Schools Chancellor This week, I began leading the nation’s largest public school system. A school system that serves more than 1 million students—including, many years ago, me! I

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Opinion: Let’s Fully Fund Public Schools Now

PS 6 in Flatbush. Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Tracy Jordan, a parent, education advocate, and Flatbush resident. The pandemic has exposed and increased the inequities that exist in our public school system, now we are surely in a crisis. At this moment, we have the opportunity to rectify this crisis by

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NYC schools could get $4.5 billion in federal aid. The big question is how to spend it.

Students at M.S. 51 in Park Slope, Brooklyn streamed into the building, socially distanced and masked. A new federal stimulus bill will send billions of new dollars to New York City schools. Amy Zimmer / ChalkbeatBy Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/16/22334388/nyc-schools-federal-stimulus-billions-learning-loss]

COVID-19

A ‘daunting, dark and difficult’ time: How a Brooklyn school moved forward after losing its leader to COVID

Yesenia Peralta is the principal of the Brooklyn Democracy Academy where Dez Ann Romain, the former principal, died from COVID in the early months of the pandemic. David Handschuh / ChalkbeatBy Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/12/22326063/dez-ann-romain-brooklyn-democracy-academy-principal-death-coronavirus-anniversary] High school student Etienne Musole remembered

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Q&A With Kenya Handy-Hilliard On Her Run For City Council District 40

Kenya Handy-HilliardKenya Handy-Hilliard [https://www.kenyaforthepeople.com/] is running in a crowded field to replace the 3.5 term councilmember Mathieu Eugene, who is term-limited after almost 15 years in office. There are currently 12 candidates vying for the seat to represent Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Ditmas Park in

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It’s official: NYC high school buildings will reopen in March. Sports are set to resume in April.

NYC high schools will welcome back students on March 22. Brooklyn’s Park Slope Collegiate, which shares a building with several high schools, welcomed its middle schoolers back on Feb. 25. Amy Zimmer/ChalkbeatBy Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/8/22318909/psal-nyc-high-school-reopening] The overwhelming

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Frequent COVID School Closures Frustrate Parents At Co-Located School Buildings

With COVID19 still active in Brooklyn, random weekly tests [https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-year-20-21/return-to-school-2020/health-and-safety/covid-19-testing] in the borough’s public schools have been the norm since December. But so have school building closures, whenever two unrelated cases are found. This has been particularly frustrating where more than

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A year into remote learning, de Blasio starts seeking bids for low-cost broadband access

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] Reema Amin, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/3/

Arts & Culture

Get to know Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema on Instagram Live

We’re bringing our state-of-the-art film school to you. With Academy Award-nominated producer and the school’s new Executive Director Richard Gladstein [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/press-room/bcpress_200623.php] (Pulp Fiction, The Bourne Identity, The Hateful Eight, Finding Neverland) at the helm, you’ll get an

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Carranza to Step Down Mid-Pandemic After 3 Years at Helm of New York City Schools

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza in January 2021. (Image: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)“Carranza to step down mid-pandemic after 3 years at helm of New York City schools [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/2/26/22302822/chancellor-richard-carranza-resigns-meisha-porter] ” was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign

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When Will The City Reopen Youth Sports? Southern Brooklyn Lawmakers Push For An Answer.

St. Andrew’s Playground on the corner of Atlantic Ave. and Kingston Ave. last spring. Curtis Brodner/BklynerAmidst rising frustration from student-athletes and their families, a group of southern Brooklyn elected officials is asking the city to bring back youth sports. In a letter sent earlier this month [https://drive.