Parents, kids rally to save school
City threatens to close a Mott Haven elementary school, but students and their parents urge education officials to reconsider.
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Rooftop garden opens atop charter school
Before the cold sets in, a Mott Haven charter school has opened a rooftop vegetable
City threatens to close four local schools
The city’s Department of Education has released its latest annual Report Cards, and four local schools are on the hit list.
For Gompers, it’s game over
Melrose is going to lose what used to be its largest high school. Four weeks after the Department of Education’s Panel for Educational Policy finally decided to let Samuel Gompers Technical High School phase out, the school’s teachers are frustrated with a decision a lot of them already had expected.
Schools struggle with language barriers
The “No Child Left Behind” Act, established by the Bush administration in 2002, stated that all students should have equal access to a high quality education. But in the Bronx, where the number of residents who speak English “not well” or “not at all” has risen by about 15 percent to over 312,000 since 1990, language is a significant barrier to achieving that goal.
Gompers High School faces possible closure
The Melrose high school is on the city’s hit list The Samuel Gompers Career and
Samuel J. Gompers HS gets no help from Dept of Ed
Angela Marrero stood outside the entrance of the Samuel Gompers Career and Technical