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Arts help kids learn, study finds

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by .

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Students from PS 132 in Morrisania posed in front of a mural they made of the neighborhood. The school is one of five in the area that teaches using an acclaimed, arts-based curriculum. Five Morrisania charter schools are among 15 in the city that have been honored for using a curriculum that improves student performance [...]

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Gompers High School faces possible closure

Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by .

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The Melrose high school is on the city’s hit list The Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School could start phasing-out next school year, one of 25 schools the city’s Department of Education is intending to close or shake up due to poor performance. The school’s administration and the students were notified in early [...]

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Gilberto Rivera, tireless advocate, dies at 75

Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by .

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Activist fought to save Hostos and improve housing Gilberto Rivera, one of the co-founders of the Melrose-based housing organization Nos Quedamos, died on Nov. 25. He was 75. Rivera, who had been president of Nos Quedamos’ board, suffered a massive stroke shortly after a board meeting at the Nos Quedamos office on Melrose Ave. on [...]

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New documentary center opens in Melrose

Posted on 12. Nov, 2011 by .

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Gallery shows work of photographer killed in Libya The inaugural exhibition at the new Bronx Documentary Center on Courtlandt Avenue highlights the final works of a major talent whose life came to a tragic end thousands of miles away – while its founders reflect on the tribute they’ve built for their fallen friend. Visions: Tim [...]

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Kids rally for afterschool programs

Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by .

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Over 300 elementary school students rallied in Mott Haven on Oct. 20 to draw attention to the importance of the East Side House Settlement afterschool programs they participate in. The local rally was part of “Lights on Afterschool,” a nationwide event at which over a million children and adults marched to display their support for [...]

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Something’s bubbling at Mott Haven school

Posted on 18. Oct, 2011 by .

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Focus is on food in Haven Academy wellness program Sayda Arriola was stunned when her son Adam, a Mott Haven 3rd grader, told her that a visitor named “Chef James” baked rhubarb pie for his class. “I remembered thinking, ‘Rhubarb pie? What in the name of Jesus is that?’” she said. Arriola wanted to know [...]

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Samuel J. Gompers HS gets no help from Dept of Ed

Posted on 21. Sep, 2011 by .

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    Angela Marrero stood outside the entrance of the Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School on Southern Boulevard, looking at the schoolyard through a high chain-link fence. It was the first day of school for her son, a freshman, and the other Gompers students. They stood in a queue in front of [...]

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Free conflict resolution offered in the Hub

Posted on 23. Aug, 2011 by .

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Eloisa Perez was so worried about her daughter Elisa Vallejo showing up late to class and getting bad grades that she turned to the city’s Administration for Children’s Services for help. “She wasn’t listening to me,” said Perez. “Young people don’t understand about needing an education.” The city agency sent the mother and daughter to [...]

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Sen. Diaz says sex education belongs at home

Sen. Diaz says sex education belongs at home

Posted on 11. Aug, 2011 by .

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State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. denounced the Bloomberg administration’s plan to revive mandatory sex education in public schools, saying the proposal violated the right of parents to decide what and how to teach their children. “In matters involving intimacy and human sexuality, parents have the right and the responsibility to be the primary educators,” the [...]

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Courts: City must monitor schools for environmental hazards

Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by .

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Parents and community leaders have won a victory in a long-running debate over environmental hazards in the Mott Haven school campus at Concourse Village near E. 153 Street. The court ordered the School Construction Authority to conduct a new environmental review of plans to monitor the four new schools in the Mott Haven school campus [...]

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