No Child Left Behind In Harlem

Written by Kari Milchman on April 24, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

President George W. Bush will be visiting an actual Harlem school today in an attempt to raise support and awareness of his No Child Left Behind plan to boost student performance across the nation by 2014. Ironic isn’t it? Harlem Village Academy Charter School on West 144th Street has about 300 students in grades five
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Lying For Lynne

Written by John DeSio on April 11, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Brenna Stewart, a 46-year-old gym teacher at the Bronx Leadership Academy II, has landed in hot water after an investigation by the office of the Special Commissioner for Investigation (SCI) of the City’s schools found that she had lied numerous times to take off from work, once even lying so that she could attend the
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Columbia Gets Biggest Donation Ever!

Written by Kari Milchman on April 11, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Now is a pretty good time to be a student at Columbia University. Forget about all their eminent domain issues, the ivy league institution received its largest donation ever today—a whopping $400 million, courtesy of investor and alum John Kluge, 92. The cash will come from his estate upon his death (try not to wish
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Professerus Marijuanis

Written by Kari Milchman on April 2, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Police have arrested three local teachers for smoking pot. While they weren’t on school grounds or trying to teach The Fan Man while stoned, the three were nevertheless found engaging in illicit activity of the green and leafy variety in front of the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side. To be specific, they were
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Education Rally To Highlight Muslim Concerns

Written by John DeSio on March 30, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Tomorrow afternoon in the South Bronx, an amalgamation of community groups collectively known as the Bronx Coalition for Muslim School Holidays will hold a forum to discuss proposals to create public school holidays for two Muslim holy days: Eid-Ul-Fitr and Eid-Ul-Adha. "Children can be excused from school with a note to celebrate their holiday; we
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Queens Teach Has Some Sex Ed Up His, Er, Sleave

Written by Kari Milchman on March 14, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Queens elementary schoolteacher by day, Playgirl centerfold by night. Julian Fantechi, a full-time occupational therapist at Public School 99 in Kew Gardens, appeared on the shag mag’s August 2006 cover and has appeared nude more than a dozen times inside. A complaint about the 5-foot-10, NYU master’s-holding, 37-year-old’s extracurricular activities led school investigators to look
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Thompson Cracks City On Education

Written by John DeSio on March 12, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

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Weiner: Fix The Gifted Gap

Written by John DeSio on March 12, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

The care and feeding of the City’s most talented public school students has become a hot issue in recent weeks. Today, Brooklyn/Queens Rep. Anthony Weiner, the front-runner in 2009′s mayoral race, called on the Department of Education to do more for those gifted students following news that the number of semi-finalists in the prestigious Intel
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How To Breed A Rock Star Toddler

Written by Kari Milchman on March 7, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

Fresh out of college with nothing to put on your résumé but that summer spent teaching arts and crafts at day camp? Well just imagine how bare that list of credentials would be if you were just two years old. It’s true; some parents have put together a CV for their little tots in an
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Thompson: Make Gifted Programs Local

Written by John DeSio on March 7, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

City Comptroller William Thompson has issued a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein demanding that the Department of Education (DOE) rethink its handling of gifted and talented programs across the City. As it stands right now, the DOE’s gifted program is set up minus rhyme or reason, with many students bused out of their own
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