You may have read last Friday's story in the New York Times about the city's dysfunctional high school admissions process. "The Department of Education’s dizzying, byzantine system for students to select a public high school left a total...
NY1 learns:
"...the executive director of a troubled non-profit organization has resigned after less than eight months on the job. Winston Chow was hired to run the Shuang Wen Academy Network last fall, just as NY1 ...
The students at Manhattan Charter School will be hosting a special benefit celebration tomorrow night for their urban gardening program, "The Curious Garden," in collaboration with P.S. 142 and through a partnership with the Horticultural Society of New York....
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Next Monday evening, the Museum of Chinese in America will host a conversation with Frank H. Wu, Chancellor & Dean of University of California Hastings College of Law and author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White,...
Quite an honor for a Lower East Side student! Carlos Valdez, a senior at Bard High School Early College, is the Boys and Girls Club New York State Youth of the Year. Carlos made the trip to Albany with...
A public hearing will be held Thursday on a proposal to allow the Girls Prep Charter School to expand in a building it shares with two other schools on East Houston Street.
The issue has dragged on for more than...
The PTA at the Anna Silver School (P.S. 20) is holding a fun funny fundraiser this Friday night, March 25th at 6:30p. Comediennes Carla Johnston ("Moms Cracking Up"), Marion Grodin ( "The View") and Cory Kahaney ("Lettermen") will be...
We stopped by a special event this past Friday at University Neighborhood High School on Gouverneur Street. Students and teachers gathered for a little "role playing," as part of an anti-bullying campaign, "Respect For All Week." City Councilmembers Margaret...
A notice from District 1's Community Education Council:
NOTICE!!
Thursday February 17th, 2010
6:30pm
Located at Manhattan Charter School
100 Attorney Street
To hear community input on proposal to open a new charter school in lower Manhattan. The proposed charter school will serve grades K-5,...
