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Thousands Of Students Gather At Barclays To Psych Themselves Up For State Exams

BARCLAYS CENTER – More than 4,000 Success Academy students from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens filled the Barclays Center Friday morning for a lively rally to help get them ready for their upcoming state exams [http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountability/resources/testing/default.htm]. Students from Success Academy Bergen

Central Brooklyn

Traffic Snarls Expected Near Prospect Park For Charter Schools Rally; Rapper Common Slated To Speak And Perform

Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]A rally in Prospect Park on Wednesday, September 28 will bring traffic congestion and about 350 buses to drop off rally attendees, according to a community notice [http://parkslopestoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016_FES_

Education

Traffic Snarls Expected Near Prospect Park For Charter Schools Rally; Rapper Common Slated To Speak And Perform

Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]A rally in Prospect Park on Wednesday, September 28 will bring traffic congestion and about 350 buses to drop off rally attendees, according to a community notice [/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016_FES_Rally_Community_Notice.

Bensonhurst

Success Academy Cancels Pre-K Classes Over Beef With Mayor

Photo courtesy of Success Academy Bensonhurst/FacebookThe charter school network Success Academy (SA) [http://www.successacademies.org/] is making headlines again — this time because it has cancelled all of its pre-k classes as it heads to court over an ongoing contract dispute with the de Blasio administration. NY1 reports [http:

Education

CEC 13 Calls For Moratorium On Success Academy Expansion In The District

Photo courtesy of Del Scorcho [https://www.flickr.com/photos/delscorchosauce/136584515].Almost everyone in New York City has an opinion about charter schools and, specifically, the proliferation of Success Academy schools. Now, the parent and community leaders of Community Education Council [School] District 13 [http://cec13.org/] have voiced

Eva Moskowitz

Top Aide to Letitia James Found Hanged in Apartment

Council Member Letitia James said that Alfred Chiodo, one of her top aides who was found hanged at home on Thursday, always looked at New York City “with rose-colored glasses.” (Photo by Christine Streich)Alfred Chiodo, a top aide for local City Council Member and Public Advocate-elect Letitia James, was

Eva Moskowitz

Artists Show Work in Annual SONYA Studio Stroll

[SlideDeck2 id=1112 ress=1] Seventy members of South of the Navy Yard Artists [http://www.sonyaonline.org], or SONYA, participated in the organization’s 14th annual Studio Stroll this past weekend, welcoming viewers into industrial spaces, home studios, galleries and shops throughout the nabe and parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and

CB2

Tell us Your Story of Two Fort Greenes

(Photo by Christopher Dell)Last week we launched “Two Fort Greenes [http://twofortgreenes.dev.bklyner.com] ,” the first of many multimedia projects we expect to publish at The Nabe. Now that you’ve all had a chance to see our report, we want to hear your side of the story