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Photo by dragonpreneurl [https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonpreneur/8134141527/] via FlickrCongressman Dan Donovan announced a district-wide app challenge as part of the U.S. House of Representatives’ focus on advancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education today. Students (ages 13 and up) of all backgrounds and skill levels
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Presidential contender Donald Trump has been making headlines lately for his hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. From his suggestion [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/] that most Mexicans coming across the border are criminals and rapists, to his calling for a ban on all Muslim immigration, the
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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
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Source: Wikimedia CommonsPresidential contender Donald Trump has been making headlines lately for his hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. From his suggestion [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/] that most Mexicans coming across the border are criminals and rapists, to his calling for a ban on all Muslim
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Image via NYC Economic Development Corporation.Good news: the Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights — just south of the border with Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy — will be transformed into affordable housing, community and office space, a multi-sport recreational facility, and commercial space that will be open to the public. This
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Wikimedia CommonsBY CHRISTINE BUSH Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez overturned a 2013 health code amendment on Thursday that required New York City children between the ages of 6 and 59 months to receive the flu vaccine before they could attend certain types of preschool or daycare programs. Five mothers
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Photo by Kristy Leibowitz.History. Internships. Expanding horizons. Hands-on experience. Small businesses. Learning about the real world. All of these things/lessons and more were cited by this year’s “Teen Innovators [http://teeninnovatorsbldg92.tumblr.com/]” as things they learned and wanted to learn from the annual program sponsored by
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A petition launched by Brooklyn Technical High School parents has accumulated 4,395 signatures in support of a call for the school’s “fair share” of city funding in order to halt the elimination of advanced classes, extracurricular sports, and needed equipment repairs. But according to the Wall Street Journal,
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City Councilman Mark Treyger. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)City Councilman Mark Treyger plans to introduce a package of bills requiring more stringent safety measures and better oversight for contractors removing Sandy-damaged trees after a bicycle delivery man was crushed to death by a falling tree in Red Hook. “You
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Photo via Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQp-hM8c1E]Erica Garner, whose father Eric died during a chokehold at the hand of a police officer, is considering a run for the congressional seat occupied by former Staten Island prosecutor Daniel Donovan, reports [http://nypost.com/2015/12/11/eric-garners-daughter-considers-running-for-congress/
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Photo by Erica ShermanA bill introduced by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz to protect 5,000 seniors and people with disabilities from losing benefits that would protect them from rent hikes has been signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. “This bill will make sure that if your rent was frozen, it
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ACUS’ Warren Chan, Stephen Yeung, and Ken(Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst Bean)“I don’t care about being politically correct,” Warren Chan, executive director of Asian Community United Society [http://www.acus-ny.org/] (ACUS) told a handful of mostly Chinese-language press reporters on Sunday. “Our candidate, and our future