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- Mid-year budget cuts looming 1:19pm Nov 20
- Poll: How did your parent-teacher conference go? 9:09am Nov 20
- Going Green: DOE to host Green Cup Challenge event 7:44am Nov 20
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- Insideschools "friendraiser"
Nancy Bruni's house
Wednesday, April 30 at 7:00pm
In our last poll, we asked how you felt about the future of our public schools in the wake of Mayor Bloomberg’s reelection. It turns out that many of you – 32% — are angry: you feel our kids were pawns in a costly campaign and wish the money had gone to schools instead. Fift...
A notice went out in the Principal’s Weekly last week inviting schools from all over the city to participate in the Green Cup Challenge, a national student-driven energy challenge. ...
In October, Governor Paterson proposed $686 million in school budget cuts. Democratic Senate Leader John Sampson stated yesterday that these cuts “are not going to happen.” The official decision is still pending, but the vote is in process and may be settled as early as Monday evening. Pa...
A new batch of future-kindergartners will be “turning 5″ soon, and the Department of Education is preparing for their arrival. The kindergarten admissions season is set to begin Feb. 1 for children who will turn five in 2010. Th...
Q: How can I possibly make my application special when colleges are getting thousands of them? How can mine be different and get their attention? A: How can you make your application stand out...
Dec. 4 is the date when high school applications are due to school guidance counselors...
Last week, our student blogger Toni wrote about the City Hall protest against the DOE bake sale ban. Channel 11 and Gotham Schools covered the event...
When someone asked me what high schools I might be thinking about for my 7th-grader recently, my answer came swiftly and might have sounded a bit snippy...
Nearly half — 45% — of all New York City public high schools are “A” schools, according to their grades on progress reports released today by the Department of Education. An add...
Urban Word NYC is a spoken word, poetry, and hip-hop group aimed at serving New York City youth...
The “Race to the Top” dominated this week’s education headlines, but left a lot of us wondering, “who’s racing and to where?” Basically, states will “race” to create comprehensive education reform plans, in hopes of earning a chunk of 4.35 billion government dollars to support their efforts. ...
On Nov. 12, the Panel for Educational Policy approved changes to the Department of Education’s promotion standards, imposing stricter passing guidelines for students in grades 4 and 6. ...
In conjunction with the release of the new movie “Precious,” NY1 featured the work of Insideschools’ parent organization, Advocates for Children. The film follows a 16-year-old Harlem student through her struggles with illiteracy, obesity, and a broken home. Alth...
Last week, our student blogger, Toni, urged New York City residents to get out and protest the bake sale ban. Well, tomorrow is your chance...
Marriage is hard. I don’t know of any husband or wife who hasn’t, at some point or another, experienced this lifetime commitment as tiresome, uninteresting, and relentless. Even when you love your husband and he loves you and your relationship has already earned the depth of decades. An...
