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NYC seventh-grader demands DOE boss to drop bizarre schedule
Hey, teacher, leave them kids at home! A 12-year-old Brooklyn student is leading the charge in demanding the city Department of Education drop a bizarre scheduling plan that requires students to show up for a one-day school week before Christmas break. Isaac Regnier, a seventh-grader at IS 96 in Bensonhurst, started an online petition drive two weeks ago that has already garnered over 6,400 signatures calling on Chancellor David Banks to “Fix the NYC Schools Calendar.” Isaac’s ingenious plan: cancel class on Monday, Dec. 23 – the day before winter break begins – and make it up by extending the academic year...
Entire class at NYC’s Collegiate School blasts officials for forcing their ‘political opinions’ on them after antisemitism spat
Leave them kids alone! Rising seniors at Manhattan’s elite Collegiate School penned a scathing letter to administrators and parents to quit telling them what to think — after a long-running antisemitism spat erupted into public view. In the letter to administrators and board of trustees, the swanky prep school’s incoming Class of ’25 said it’s “not their place to prescribe specific political opinions to the student body.” “While many parents have called for the school to provide moral leadership in these divisive and challenging times, we would like to emphasize that the moral leadership best for our community is one that does...
Antisemitic hate thrives at NYC’s most prestigious public high schools Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant, and Bronx Science
Antisemitic hate is thriving in some of the city’s most elite public high schools. At Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science — three of the city’s nine specialized high schools — students have been tormented by peers giving Nazi salutes and accusing them of being part of a “genocide” of Palestinians, while school administrators and teachers also spew pro-Palestine propaganda, according to students and evidence obtained by The Post. Last week, Stuyvesant’s business manager Dina Ingram blasted out an email containing an anti-Israel protest guide from a George Soros-funded nonprofit to the entire school community “on behalf of Principal [Seung]...
Nutley school district faces $11M deficit, leading to teacher layoffs
The Nutley Board of Education has been forced to cut teacher positions due to a $7 million shortfall, and is awaiting a forensic audit by the Department of Education to determine the cause of the financial crisis.
N.J. school district appoints new superintendent after period of ‘turmoil’
A new superintendent has been appointed in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, seven months after the previous superintendent was removed amid complaints from families, teachers and education advocates. The school board voted Tuesday to name veteran educator Jason Bing as the Essex County school district’s superintendent under a four-year contract....
Arts Council of Glen Rock Awards Scholarships to Glen Rock HS Seniors
GLEN ROCK, NJ – Arts Council of Glen Rock has announced the winners of its 2024 Emerging Artists Awards. Four students were each awarded a $500 scholarship during the Glen Rock High School annual awards assembly on June 5. Since its formation in 2019, an essential part of the Arts Council’s mission is to encourage the success of hometown artists – of all ages. In 2023, the Arts Council of Glen Rock initiated its first scholarship awards for graduating seniors, and this spring, students from 6th to 12th grade participated in the first Arts Council Banner Contest,...
Jorge Osoria Honored by Paterson City Council for Years of Service as JFK Principal
PATERSON, NJ – After his resignation from John F. Kennedy High School (JFK), the Paterson City Council honored Jorge Osoria for his years of service as an educator and Principal of Instruction at JFK. Osoria began his career in Paterson Public Schools in 2007 as a social studies teacher at Eastside High School. In his current role as Principal of Instruction for JFK, he oversees educational programs and ensures the quality of instruction at the school and remains involved with the administration, working alongside other staff and faculty to support the academic and extracurricular activities of students.CLICK...
Most NYC high schools don’t have a student newspaper. Teachers can help change that.
At the start of seventh period each day, student journalists noisily enter my classroom — many of them still finishing half-eaten lunches. They grab laptops and get to work trying to produce stories for our newspaper.Some leave class to find people to interview for stories; some decide that the story they pitched isn’t going to work out after all; some ask me questions about our school for stories they’re writing; some read student journalism from elsewhere in the city or from around the country.This is not my most organized or efficient class, but figuring out how to teach it for...
NYC public schools will educate students and their families about safe gun storage
Schools Chancellor David Banks, pictured here at a different event, announced the measure at a press conference alongside other officials on Thursday. The announcement comes after a 14-year-old was accidentally shot and killed by his cousin, who was playing with a gun. [ more › ]
Late rally by Ramsey softball falls just short in Group 2 state title game
SOUTH ORANGE - An extra base here, a more pinpoint throw there, maybe one more hit in a key spot. That was the margin of defeat for Ramsey who fell Friday night to Gloucester, 3-2, in the Group 2 softball final at Ivy Hill Park. The Rams (26-4) battled to the very end, with the tying run at second base in the bottom of the seventh. ...
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