How NYC parents want $38K per public school student spent next year

As the number of New York City public school students continues to shrink for the 2023-2024 academic year — 767,500 are projected to be enrolled next fall, down from a high of 1.1 million in 2018 — the Department of Education is planning to spend a record $38,000 per child. While politicians and experts argue…

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Funkmaster Flex’s recipe for success

Earlier this week, the non profit organization Windows of Hip Hop alongside the Bronx borough president Vanessa L. Gibson invited Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex to the Bronx School for Law, Government, & Justice to speak…

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Where have all the librarians gone?

The librarian at my daughter’s school is a local celebrity. Students always pop their heads in the door throughout the day looking for her anytime we’ve hosted an event in the library. She knows hundreds…

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Changes proposed to lockdown drill mandates

Last month, New York state Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon proposed changes to New York’s mandate of four lockdown drills each year. They propose the following: Since the number of mandated drills increased from…

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Issues with coed swimming class 

New York Times writer Troy Closson summed it up best: freedom of religion against the goal of social integration. That is how he described the conundrum which is coed swimming classes at Stuyvesant High School in…

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