By JEANE MacINTOSH
Last Updated: 7:36 AM, July 8, 2011
Posted: 2:07 AM, July 8, 2011
Parents of an elite Chinatown dual-language school yesterday excoriated the Department of Education for what they called an “abusive, secretive,” three-year probe that led to the recent ouster of the academy’s beloved principal.
The dressing-down came outside Manhattan federal [...]
Posted By Philissa Cramer On June 29, 2011 @ 2:29 pm
As the city heads into summer, where exactly this fall’s crop of new charter schools will open remains in limbo [1]. But that doesn’t mean more schools aren’t planned for the future.
Earlier this month, SUNY’s Charter Schools Institute approved a dozen charter [...]
BY Clare Trapasso
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Monday, July 4th 2011, 4:00 AM
A grieving mom says her 12-year-old son killed himself after being harassed by schoolmates who thought he was gay - and she’s suing the city for not stopping the abuse.
Bergouhi Elissa, 36, of Astoria, Queens, said she repeatedly complained to staff at Public [...]
BY Langnee Barron
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Thursday, June 23rd 2011, 4:00 AM
She may be just a first-grader, but Eliana Asiedu already has big plans for her education.
“I want to go to college. That’s where you get to know everything,” said Eliana, 6, as she stood in the lobby of New York University’s Cantor Film Center one day [...]
BY Rachel Monahan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, June 26th 2011, 4:00 AM
This school really doesn’t want kids to fail.
Flushing High School students can score no lower than a 50 in a subject as long as they show up - and students getting a 50 or a 55 can do makeup work to improve their [...]
Contact: Darnell Benoit For Immediate Release
Phone: 718.774.3037
dbenoit@flanbwayan.org
June 29, 2011
Time Ran Out for Haitian Students at Tilden
44 Haitian English Language Learner students did not receive a diploma.
Brooklyn, New York, June 28, 2011 — Some were only a few credits or exams shy of graduation when Samuel J. Tilden High School closed [...]
