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The first day for Staten Island students comes with quick reward
Fewer students are expected for opening of public schools since a four-day weekend follows Staten Island Advance/Irving SilversteinFewer students are expected for the opening of public schools since...
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Below are the dates for the 2010-2011 Catholic school year: Sept. 8: School begins for all students Oct. 11: Schools closed for Columbus Day Nov. 1: Some schools closed for All Saints Day Nov. 11:...
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Below are the dates for the 2010-2011 public school year: Sept., 8 -- First day of school Sept. 9-10: Schools closed for Rosh Hashanah Oct. 11: Schools closed for Columbus Day Nov. 2: Election Day,...
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Bus service for 7th- and 8th-graders is off again
Appeals court rules that pupils are on their own until lawsuit is decided STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Students in the seventh and eighth grades have been bounced from the school bus again. The state...
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As summer ends, changes come to Staten Island schools
New schools, new superintendents, new classroom facilities and new standards will greet students as they take their seats on the first day back at school Wednesday, despite one of the most severe...
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Staten Island judge declines to force temporary bus service for 7th, 8th graders
Parents, pols had hoped to get service until trial on issue begins Monday Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-HammelStudents board buses after being dismissed from Paulo Intermediate School in Huguenot in...
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After more than two months of summer, it's back-to-school for Staten Island...
With classrooms set to open, parents, elected officials rally to get 3,000 seventh-and eighth-graders back on the bus STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Lunches are packed, new sneakers being laced and kids...
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First day of school on Staten Island brings school buses -- for some -- pig...
After one day in session, public schools will be out tomorrow and Friday STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A flurry of backpacks, pig tails and lumbering yellow buses today could only symbolize one thing: school...
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Parents of Staten Island 7th, 8th graders try to negotiate drop-off without...
Trial on cuts set to begin Monday Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-HammelStudents cross Amboy Road and Yetman Avenue near Totten Intermediate School, Tottenville.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Orange cones,...
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On school's Day One on Staten Island, everybody's an angel
Opening of parochial schools marked by high hopes, 2 new principals STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They arrived with shoes shined, hair combed, shirts tucked in place, and for most of them, smiles on their...
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Judge John Fusco demands city turn over e-mails in school bus case
Official correspondence may show how decision was made to eliminate yellow bus service STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg may not escape legal scrutiny over school bus cuts. During...
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Staten Island educators strive to fit 9/11 into curriculum
School take different tacks STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Try talking about death, destruction and terrorism to a 10-year-old. It isn't easy. Shannon Rinelli knows. The fifth-grade teacher at PS 11, Dongan...
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E-mail evidence in Staten Island yellow-bus wrangle is curiously lacking
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- From: Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott. To: Schools Chancellor Joel Klein Subject: Eliminating the Staten Island school bus variance. Message: "Hello Joel ... Take care" An attorney...
View Article9 students at Staten Island high schools advance in national scholarship program
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Nine students from Staten Island high schools are among 16,000 announced today as semifinalists in a prestigious national scholarship program. The students, all seniors, who...
View ArticleFilm to key Department of Education workshop on pupils with disabilities
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A workshop sponsored by the city Department of Education, on students with disabilities and non-native English language speakers, will be held Oct. 27 at the Michael J. Petrides...
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Attorney reveals DOE e-mails, as trial on Staten Island bus service cuts gets...
Education officials tells court city shouldn't have to pay for service for 7th and 8th graders, no matter the cost Staten Island Advance/Irving SilversteinTotten Intermediate School students board...
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City's excuse: Staten Island school bus perk was plain old pork
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Politics is the reason seventh- and eighth-graders ever received yellow bus service on Staten Island -- not because they lacked other transportation options. That's the...
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School bus trial seeks answers to who decided to cut service for 7th-,...
Trial continues in state Supreme Court today STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- So who made the ultimate decision to eliminate a variance to provide yellow bus service to about 3,000 seventh and eighth-graders --...
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School bus cuts causes to DOE budget maven to tell Island: Suck it up
E-mail says city no longer provides bus service to 7th and 8th graders because 'times are tough' STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Department of Education's top budget woman has a message to students who now...
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Yellow bus service for Staten Island 7th-, 8th-graders was never in cards
Trial testimony reveals money wasn't a factor in city's rejecting variance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The money was there - they just didn't want to spend it on busing Staten Island students. A week...
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