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Earlier this week, neighbor and NY Times Gotham columnist Michael Powell [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/columns/gotham/index.html] gave a glimpse inside Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/]‘s disappearing city funding with his article, Reducing Some City Parks to the Status of Beggars [http://www.
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As we get ready to vote on the projects that are in the running for funding [/blog/politics/expo-offers-first-look-at-participatory-budgeting-projects] through Participatory Budgeting, Neil Reilly, a District 39 Committee Member and former Transit Committee Delegate notes that one of the interesting outcomes [http://bradlander.com/blog/2013/03/21/what-starts-in-pb-doesnt-always-end-in-pb] of
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Sheepshead Bay High School students protesting the city’s closure attempts in the last school year. (Photo: Robert Fernandez)The third time’s the charm? New York City’s school administrators seem to hope so. For the third time in three years, the Department of Education has again set its
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Photo via Eric Michael Johnson/NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/nyregion/for-some-new-yorkers-a-grand-experiment-in-participatory-budgeting.html?ref=nyregion] I was completely oblivious to the comings and goings of politics until my senior year of high school. Peggy McCarty, my government teacher, brought such passion to the subject and opened
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After deciding last month to shutter Sheepshead Bay High School [/tag/sheepshead-bay-high-school/], as well as 23 other high schools, the Department of Education chose a name this week for the new school in the old building: Academy of Career Exploration of Sheepshead Bay. John Dewey High School [/tag/john-dewey-high-school/] – also
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[polldaddy poll=5999319]Congressman Bob Turner will appear on the steps of a Queens Catholic school today to announce his sponsorship of a new bill providing tax relief to families with children in private schools. The congressman introduced the Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2012 on
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Courtesy of Allie_Caulfield via FlickrFrom the Brooklyn Eagle [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=36218]: > BROOKLYN — Twenty-six businesses and 76 community groups sent letters in support of the restoration of funding for the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, the Bronx Zoo
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It’s been a terrible year for New York City schools. It kicked off when the city announced $405 million worth of cuts back in May [http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/05/19/2009-05-19_harsh_lesson_new_york_city_education_department_announes_405_million_in_school_b.