A carcinogenic toxin found at P.S. 51 has revealed the school’s troubling environmental history, and the lapses by the city in possibly preventing claims of cancers among staff and students.
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City Limits: Toxins found at P.S. 51 pose troubling questions
Posted on 05 January 2012.
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P.S. 48 wins $50,000 from national “Glee” contest
Posted on 15 December 2011.
Hunts Point’s P.S. 48 saved its music program from the budget axe by winning one of three national Glee Give a Note grand prizes.
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Where are all the Bronx kids in the Bronx High School of Science?
Posted on 14 December 2011.
The elite high school in Bedford Park once drew more than 90 percent of its students from the borough. Today only 14 percent come from the Bronx.
Posted in Education, Featured, North Central Bronx0 Comments
Taking Advil to schools
Posted on 30 November 2011.
As schools nationwide watch budgets dwindle, for-profit companies have stepped in. However, critics see gifts from these companies not as goodwill, but as a way of marketing to children.
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Prepping for the city’s elite high schools
Posted on 12 October 2011.
M.S. 80 set to become the Bronx pilot site for free tutoring to prepare more low-income students for the city’s elite high schools.
Posted in Bronx Beats, Education, Featured, Northwest Bronx0 Comments
“The Poetry Man” filmmaker gives back
Posted on 09 October 2011.
Throgs Neck high school teacher realized that poetry, and later, film had saved him from the poverty, drugs and violence that engulfed him growing up.
Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Bronx Tales, Culture, Education0 Comments
Occupy Wall Street protesters find a cause in protecting education jobs
Posted on 05 October 2011.
Local education workers forged an unexpected alliance with the Occupy Wall Street protesters Tuesday.
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Emotional pleas aside, panel votes to close Bronx Academy
Posted on 29 April 2011.
Chancellor Dennis Walcott said the transfer school “has not done the job”
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