This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters. Teachers at P.S. 63 anticipated their Bronx school would shut down last week when they learned from a company conducting on-site COVID-19 tests that three students were positive for the virus. Two cases are […]
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NYC Principals Fear Empty Virtual Summer School Classes
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters Dozens of principals are quietly lobbying the education department to overhaul New York City’s summer school plan and give individual schools a larger role in summer programming. As more than one in six district […]
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Coney Island Businesses Plead for a Lifesaver to Survive Extended Shutdown
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. With staff down to six and prospects for the summer uncertain, brothers Steve and Dennis Vourderis still happily stroll through their shuttered amusement park a few times a week to crank up their iconic Wonder Wheel. For the […]
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State’s Deadliest Nursing Homes List Omits Hundreds of Fatalities
Additional reporting by Ese Olumhense Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. An inventory of COVID-19 deaths at New York nursing homes released by the Cuomo administration Friday provides an incomplete picture of how dire the situation is inside the facilities, medical workers and elected officials […]
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Find Out How Much Your School’s PTA Raises
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters A tiny portion of New York City parent-teacher associations reported raising more than $1,000 per student — amounting, in some cases, to more than $1 million — while hundreds of other such school groups […]
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City Should Test Entire Schools for Lead Paint, Lawmakers Say
“Top City Lawmakers Say NYC Should Test Entire Schools for Lead Paint — Not Just Classrooms” was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters The education department should ensure that all areas inside schools, not just classrooms, are free from peeling lead paint, according […]