Education
Posted inBrooklyn, Education
A Brooklyn branch of the charter school also repeatedly suspended the special-needs youth and called child services to push him out, lawsuit claims.
Posted inEducation
‘It’s Basically Jail’: Inside NYC’s School Suspension Centers
Overall suspension rates have dropped under Mayor de Blasio. Yet lengthier out-of-school suspensions, disproportionately impact students of color.
Posted inEducation
Public Funding of Private-School Security Grows by Millions
A three-year-old program using public money for security guards at private schools – including elite institutions – is on pace to run $22.3 million.
Posted inImmigration
Language School Was Ordered Evicted Weeks Before Stranding Students
Staff and visa-dependent students at the English-language school ALCC had only four days’ notice before the Midtown institution shuttered.
Posted inEducation
Wrong Envelope: Students Accepted to Coveted Lab School After Rejection Snafu
Some 144 students were erroneously informed that they didn’t get into the coveted New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies.
Posted inEducation
Mayor Flunking on Pledge to Put A/C in Every Classroom
Two years after Mayor de Blasio’s air-conditioning vow, fuzzy math put the project behind schedule as costs rise faster than July temperatures.
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Suspensions Drop 14% in Public Schools After Spike Last Year
Meanwhile, city statistics also show that average suspension lengths fell 30 percent in the first half of the school year.
Posted inBrooklyn
Bye-Bye Bergen: Brooklyn School Sheds Slave-Owner Family Name
Prospect Heights’ P.S. 9 will be renamed after Sarah Smith Garnet, the first African-American woman to become a New York public school principal.
Posted inImmigration
Visa-Dependent Students Stranded by Closure of English-Language School
Midtown’s American Language Communications Center cancelled classes with no warning, putting hundreds at risk of losing their student visas.

