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NYC public school calendar and holidays for 2024-2025 academic year: Dates to know
Summer camps are done, kids are back at home with their families, mornings are getting a bit crisper as evenings are getting a bit shorter — all sur-fire signs that summer is ending and school is about to start back up again. For some parents, it's been a long...
Extra Extra: NYC public schools are done with heteronormative dress codes
Because the dress code this year seeks to comply with Title IX anti-discrimination rules, here are your afternoon links: Capri Sun is post-pouch, The Situation sobered up, wearing khakis to the gym is cool and more. [ more › ]
Mount Vernon Superintendent, On Paid Leave for More than a Year, Sues the School District
For more than one year, Mount Vernon Public School Superintendent Waveline Bennett-Conroy, has been on paid leave, pending a federal investigation that includes accusations that Bennett-Conroy hired her son, Marlon Stevenson, to receive federal grant monies without providing any services to students. Bennett-Conroy was placed on leave in the spring...
Disgraced NYC public schools exec who turned blind eye to tainted food begs judge for mercy
Finally, he’s caring about children. The disgraced New York public schools executive convicted of taking bribes and serving tainted food to city kids says his own family is “barely hanging on” — as federal prosecutors seek to lock him up for six years. “I am pleading for mercy,” Eric Goldstein, a former official at the DOE, wrote in an Aug. 23 letter, in which he tried to get sympathy by describing how hard his two sons and ex-wife had been suffering because of his crimes. “Not especially for me, but for [his family] because without my financial, emotional and physical support I fear...
Sick tale of antisemitism at Origins HS again proves bad educators get free passes in NYC
There are no consequences for bad educators in New York City — not even those who enable Hitler-embracing teens. On Monday, Origins HS Principal Dara Kammerman stepped down from her $170K-per-year position after turning a blind eye to horrific antisemitism at her Brooklyn school — but it was barely a slap on the wrist, as Kammerman then claimed a spot as a “valuable member” of Superintendent Michael Prayor’s team. That is, she got kicked upstairs. She now joins the disgraced ranks of former Harvard and UPenn Presidents Claudine Gay and Liz Magill as administrators who were shuffled out of power after giving...
More bullying, teacher dissatisfaction with the chancellor: 5 takeaways from NYC’s 2024 school survey
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.More New York City students than at any point in the past five years say kids in their schools regularly bully each other, newly released 2024 school survey results show.More than half of the roughly 355,000 middle and high school students who responded to the city school system’s annual survey earlier this year said their classmates sometimes or often bullied, harassed, or intimidated each other last school year – up from 44% in 2019, the first year for which citywide survey numbers are available.The rise...
Brooklyn High School Football Coach Accused Of Smashing Student‘s Head Into Wall
The student claims it was all because he fell asleep during a football team video review. The mother of Shayson Willock, a 14-year-old high school student, is accusing his coach of smashing her son’s head into a wall, leaving him unconscious, The New York Post reports. In a criminal...
Thousands of NYC special ed students denied services days before school starts
Thousands of private and homeschooled students in need of special-education services from the city have been denied crucial resources just a week before school starts — all because a form due in June wasn’t received in time, The Post has learned. State law requires parents to send a written request by June 1 for services for kids who attend private schools or are homeschooled and have been approved for services. But advocates, teachers and parents — who have been accessing resources such as occupational, physical and speech therapy for years — say the rule was never enforced, and they weren’t...
A new era in education at Long Beach's Temple Emanu-El
Beryl Jackowitz was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, by an observant Conservative Jewish family. Being Jewish was a very big part of her life as she grew up. She went to Jewish Day School, and participated in United Synagogue Youth, a group for Conservative Jewish teens across the country. After she earned a degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania, she maintained a close connection with Israel throughout her 20s and 30s. Before she got married, she took her fiancé, Michael Jackowitz, to Israel with her.
Baldwin Public Schools devise plan to help students develop social skills hampered by pandemic
With summer break coming to a close, kids are getting ready to head back to class, but as the calendar flips to September, some students still haven't turned the corner from 2020 and are struggling to catch up following the pandemic.Educators say some kids are still showing developmental delays due to the isolations and shutdowns. So, what's being done to make sure they don't fall even more behind?Andrea McDevitt knows all about the excitement surrounding a new school year, but the veteran elementary school teacher, now in her 18th year, is also keenly aware of the pandemic-related reality that the...
Columbia antisemitism task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students
Jewish students at Columbia University have been driven out of their dorm rooms, chased off campus, compelled to hide their Jewish identity, ostracized by their peers and denigrated by faculty, according to a report released Friday by the university’s Task Force on Antisemitism. The report, the second one released...
2024-2025 NYC Catholic elementary school calendar: Important dates for the upcoming year
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It’s time for Catholic elementary school students in New York City to get ready for the new academic year. The Archdiocese of New York Superintendent of Schools released the 2024-2025 calendar for Catholic elementary school students on Staten Island. Thursday, Sept. 5, is the first...
NYC's Open Streets program expands to 71 schools across the city: officials
New York City is rolling out the largest number of open streets at schools yet, aiming to boost safety and give kids extra outdoor space to play, according to a release from the Department of Transportation.
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