Announcements
2839 Bedford Ave. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNER)FLATBUSH – A 15-year-old male student was arrested after police recovered a .22-caliber loaded gun inside Midwood High School this afternoon. At approximately 1:40 pm, cops were called into the Flatbush high school. They then recovered a loaded firearm, the NYPD confirms. At
Announcements
P.S.152/P.S. 315 play space design on Bedford Avenue. (Photo by Carly Miller)The results are beginning to come in for New York City’s Participatory Budgeting Cycle 6! City Council Member Jumaane Williams announced the three winning projects for District 45 [http://council.nyc.gov/district-45/
Central Brooklyn
> “Level 1 mobilization” for bomb threat at Midwood High School. Full evacuation. pic.twitter.com/pvoMLOedhg [https://t.co/pvoMLOedhg] — James (@jamzeaton) February 28, 2017 [https://twitter.com/jamzeaton/status/836613372103778307] Midwood High School was evacuated this morning after someone called in a bomb threat to the school on
Neighbors
From Left: Council Member Mathieu Eugene, Ahmed Khalifa, Khalifa’s dad, community leader Hassan Eltigani, and Assembly Member Dov Hikind. (Photo by BKLYNER)“I don’t like people calling me a hero. I’m just a guy,” said Ahmed Khalifa, the 17-year-old Midwood High School student who helped catch a
Central Brooklyn
(Photo by evalamming / instagram)[Update 12/14 11am: This article has been lightly edited] Yesterday morning, a 17-year-old student set his classmate’s hair on fire at Midwood High School on Bedford Avenue. While sitting in class, a 17-year-old boy reached over and set a girl’s hair on fire
Education
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Central Brooklyn
Midwood High School. (Photo by evalamming / instagram)Eight Brooklyn schools have made the New York Post’s “top 40 public high schools in NYC [http://nypost.com/2016/09/17/the-top-40-public-high-schools-in-nyc/]” list. Of those eight, three high schools in our area, Midwood, Edward R. Murrow and the High School for
Central Brooklyn
Midwood High School, 2839 Bedford Avenue (Photo by evalamming / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGFnUNxsD7v/?taken-at=274150484])The Department of Education has dropped misconduct charges against an English teacher at Midwood High School, who was suspended in March for re-selling books to students [/blog/education/midwood-high-school-teacher-disciplined/]. Todd Friedman, an
Arts & Culture
Upcoming mural at Midwood HS connects Midwood’s past and present. (Photo via Groundswell)What is it really like to be a middle school student in Ditmas Park? This week, two neighborhood schools will unveil vibrant student murals that express their answers to that very question. Throughout the school year,
Central Brooklyn
Midwood HIgh School (Photo: Google Maps)An English teacher at Midwood High School [http://www.midwoodhighschool.org/] has been disciplined for paying for books used in his class out of pocket, and re-selling them to students at a nominal cost, the New York Post reports [http://nypost.com/2016/05/
Arts & Culture
All three schools’ SING groups taking the stage awaiting the announcement of the winner. (Photo: DOE)The Third Annual Brooklyn SINGS! competition — a friendly musical contest between Madison, Midwood and Murrow high schools — raised $15,000 this year for Relay for Life [http://relay.acsevents.org/site/PageServer?pagename=relay]
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Photo by Stefan Ringel/Brooklyn Borough President’s Office.Seventy Brooklyn schools — from elementary and middle to high school and college institutions — and their students are the beneficiaries of a $13.3 million allocation of funds from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ office, designated specifically for STEM education programs. Almost