A program that uses public funds to pay for unarmed security guards at private schools – including some of the city’s most elite institutions – is on pace to cost taxpayers $22.3 million over the last three years, THE CITY has learned. The effort has expanded in size and cost each year since it was […]
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Language School Was Ordered Evicted Weeks Before Stranding Students
The owners of an English-language school received an eviction notice weeks before its abrupt closure left staff and visa-dependent students stranded last week, court documents show. The American Language Communication Center (ALCC) owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent, taxes and utility bills on three floors it rented on West 36th Street, according to […]
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Wrong Envelope: Students Accepted to Coveted Lab School After Rejection Snafu
An admissions error has resulted in 144 students receiving an offer to the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, a coveted high school, after they were initially informed they didn’t get in. While some worried it could cause a ripple effect at other schools, the education department pushed back, saying the number of […]
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Mayor Flunking on Pledge to Put A/C in Every Classroom
An effort Mayor Bill de Blasio launched two years ago to outfit every public school classroom with air conditioning appears further from the announced finish line than when it started — all because education officials can’t count, records show. Meanwhile, costs are rising faster than temperatures in July. Some 13,062 public school classrooms don’t have […]
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Suspensions Drop 14% in Public Schools After Spike Last Year
After a one-year jump in suspensions, New York City schools are suspending students less frequently this school year, according to data released Monday. From July through December 2018, schools issued roughly 12,500 suspensions, a 14 percent decrease over the same period last year. If that trend continues, it will likely reverse a spike in suspensions […]
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Bye-Bye Bergen: Brooklyn School Sheds Slave-Owner Family Name
On Feb. 26, two votes took place at Public School 9 – a.k.a. the Teunis G. Bergen School, located just north of the Brooklyn Museum. In the gym, voters were electing the city’s next public advocate. In the auditorium across the hall, parents faced a different kind of choice: Would they remove the name of […]
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Visa-Dependent Students Stranded by Closure of English-Language School
The immigration status and finances of hundreds of foreign students enrolled at a popular English language school were thrown into jeopardy after the 44-year-old institution abruptly shuttered this week. Students at the American Language Communications Center (ALCC) on West 36th St. in Manhattan first heard the rumors by text, WhatsApp and phone on Tuesday afternoon: […]