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Shameful brinksmanship puts education of NY students at risk
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- By delaying a deal to initiate major education reforms, the State of New York is putting at risk $700 million in badly needed federal funding. The U.S. Department of Education...
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State of the City 2012: Mayor Michael Bloomberg says NYC will confront...
Mayor announces a 'new blue-collar-friendly industrial business zone' on Staten Island, iredesign of the Staten Island Zoo aquarium Associated Press file photoMayor Bloomberg is delivering his 11th...
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Staten Island Catholic elementary school students will find out if they made...
Today is decision day for many 8th graders View full sizeIf you've been accepted to St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School, the envelope you'll receive in the mail today leaves no doubt about your...
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Bullying in the Internet age has schools over a barrel
 Staten Island Advance/Bill LyonsFamily and friends mourn Amanda Diane Cummings at her funeral a week ago. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- At 2:29 p.m., on school grounds, if a student sends a sexual,...
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Staten Island's PS 14: NYC Department of Education has some explaining to do
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- PS 14, recently deemed a failing school, will be phased out over the next several years. Meanwhile, a new school, PS 78, to be housed in the very same Tompkins Avenue building,...
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Staten Island education council looks to streamline process for yellow-bus...
Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-HammelFourth- and fifth-graders living less than a mile from school need a variance to ride the bus. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- For years, fourth-grader Vincent Dipalo's...
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NYC panel to vet Community Education Council's bid to streamline bus...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A proposal to change how students can get a variance to ride a yellow bus to school if their walking route is unsafe will get further study from the citywide Panel for...
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Education is focus of first New York state budget hearing
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Elementary and secondary education is the subject of the first joint legislative budget hearing. Education officials and representatives of school organizations from across the state...
View ArticleEmbarrassing 'SHCOOL' sign replaced outside NYC school
NEW YORK -- An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone. "Shcool' had been etched into the asphalt outside a New York City school building. Utility workers used heavy machinery to ground up the...
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Staten Island compromise would fix a dangerous NYC policy on school busing,...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The pathway to school, and for many Staten Island children it sometimes really is a path, can be patently dangerous. Yet the city Department of Education persists in refusing...
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Monsignor Thomas Bergin named chairman of Staten Island Catholic Schools Board
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Cardinal-designate Archbishop Timothy Dolan has appointed Monsignor Thomas Bergin, pastor of St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood, to serve as chairman of the new Staten Island...
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At Staten Island's PS 14, parents care, but NYC and Staten Island officials...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The New York City Department of Education has never offered a plausible explanation for how PS 14 in Stapleton plummeted from a school the DOE rated A in 2008-2009 to a school...
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76 Vassar College applicants wrongly told they were accepted after computer...
NEW YORK -- Dozens of applicants to Vassar College were mistakenly told they had gotten into the school when they checked a website that had been set up for students applying for early decisions. The...
View ArticleSpokeswoman for NYC schools becomes chief of staff for Rupert Murdoch
NEW YORK -- The top spokeswoman for New York City's public school system is leaving to become chief of staff for media baron Rupert Murdoch. Natalie Ravitz joined the city Department of Education in...
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Help finally on the way for crowded Staten Island schools
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Crowded public schools can be found everywhere on Staten Island. But the Department of Education now has plans to deal with the critical shortage of elementary school seats....
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Poll shows voters like Bloomberg -- but trust teachers more
Just a day before the final decision on whether to close 23 schools citywide, a new poll shows New York City voters like many of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education proposals -- but they trust the...
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg firm on worship ban in schools as church advocates head...
NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg has again strongly defended New York City's ban on worship services in public schools. The ban went in effect on Sunday. Asked on Monday whether he'd consider a...
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Judge rebukes Staten Island principal, reinstates PS 1 teacher
Principal Diane Gordin fired Lisa Capece because of her union activity, according to the ruling Lisa Capece received positive performance evaluations during her first 30 months at PS 1, Tottenville....
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Churches that use Staten Island public schools get 10-day eviction reprieve
Pastor calls the ruling a 'step in hopefully preserving this wonderful freedom that we have to express our faith in America' STATEN ISLAND -- Staten Island churches that use local public schools as a...
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Staten Island students receiving high school acceptances
They began receiving their results in middle schools today, and all will have their results by tomorrow Advance file photo"Today is an exciting day for the tens of thousands of New York City students...
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