City Kid Corner
Courtesy Four & Twenty Blackbirds [https://www.facebook.com/birdsblack/photos/a.108233875862604.12381.108233345862657/1117553024930679/?type=3&theater] Friends, neighbors, Brooklynites – lend me your ears. St. Patrick’s Day may be Thursday, but today, today, is a day of awakening. Today is Pi Day. The official Pi Day
Central Brooklyn
Some of the champion members of the PS 139 Chess Ninjas. (Photo: Ellen Wong)With your help, Ditmas Park’s gladiators of the chessboard from PS 139 [http://ps139.org] will take this year’s national championship by storm. Parents and other fans have organized an April 7th fundraiser to
Arts & Culture
Image courtesy of Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/home.php].The Pratt Institute Library was erected in 1896 as the first public library in Brooklyn — as well as the only one for the next 15 years — and has since continued in its mission of providing educational materials to anyone,
Announcements
REWARDING EDUCATION Parents, what if you could stop the battles over homework? Chores? Practicing for that recital? A newly launched mobile app (for iOS users only currently), Gradestar, is here to help you do just that. It is a free app that rewards academic and extracurricular achievement, and gives parents
Announcements
REWARDING EDUCATION Parents, what if you could stop the battles over homework? Chores? Practicing for that recital? A newly launched mobile app (for iOS users only currently), Gradestar, is here to help you do just that. It is a free app that rewards academic and extracurricular achievement, and gives parents
Announcements
REWARDING EDUCATION Parents, what if you could stop the battles over homework? Chores? Practicing for that recital? A newly launched mobile app (for iOS users only currently), Gradestar, is here to help you do just that. It is a free app that rewards academic and extracurricular achievement, and gives parents
Bensonhurst
(L-R) Principal Rina Horne, Nicolina & Francesa Filoramo, Yahya Abdur-Rashid, Superintendent Isabel DiMola, Donovan Ford, Assistant Principal Helen Stern (Courtesy of P.S. 212 The Lady Deborah Moody School)“P.S. 212 has the best K-O-A-L-A-T-I-E-S!” The new catchy slogan rang out this week, as students at PS. 212 The
Business
Refoundry participants (from left) Eugene Manigo, Charles McNair, Ralphy Dominguez, James Eleby. (Courtesy of Refoundry)An innovative non-profit organization working hard to provide training for formerly incarcerated people [/blog/business/just-second-chance-refoundry-helps-former-inmates-create-career/] is looking for volunteer assistance this Saturday, March 12 from 11am-3pm. Come learn about Refoundry, help tackle a few
Central Brooklyn
Danna Jellinek Ozeri. (Courtesy of Nurit Ozeri)“Come up! Come up!,” says Nurit Ozeri, welcoming me into her Ocean Parkway home. She bolts up the stairs to the second floor and swings open the door — which has a small “Shalom Y’all” sign at eye level. This welcoming moment connects
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Education
https://youtu.be/PwaasiPArFg Less than a week after a father’s arrest scandalized P.S. 193 [/arrest-p-s-193-spurs-calls-principals-removal/], another educator threatened to call police on a parent — this time for videotaping a meeting with two city councilmen. More than 200 people, including children, packed the elementary school’s auditorium Tuesday
Central Brooklyn
Screenshot of map of District 22 from the NYC Department of Education website. District 22 extends all the way down to Jamaica Bay.Our section of South Brooklyn is one of two New York City school districts especially shortchanged by the City’s school construction plans, according to a new
Central Brooklyn
https://youtu.be/Q79SV0ebnu8 Long-simmering tensions at Midwood’s P.S. 193 boiled over Wednesday when the principal had a parent arrested for speaking up about his child not being allowed to use the bathroom. In a video posted to YouTube, parents can be heard saying “this is wrong” and