Parents are receiving their child’s G&T scores this week, which means that some families are now looking at new options for their children. If your child scored between the 90th and 96th Percentile, your child… Read More »Got a G&T Notice? Now What? 2 Events For You
InsideSchools.org reported that 24 charter schools are opening this fall and 1/3 of them are in Brooklyn. What is a charter school? Charter schools are free and public schools that operate independently. Instead, they create… Read More »9 New Charter Schools Opening in Brooklyn Fall 2012
If you are fed up with the standardized testing system that our NY educational system has adopted , then you can join other like-minded parents in a petition to NY State officials. This group of… Read More »Stop the High-Stakes Testing Madness
It’s not too late to apply to pre-kindergarten for the 2012-2013 school year! (For those of you who are wondering about Round 2 for Prek- read our post here.) The deadline to apply for public… Read More »It’s Not Too Late To Apply For PreK
Joyce Szuflita, of NYC School Help is our School Expert and always has the scoop on what’s going on with schools. Joyce sent me an email that there will not be any Round 2 for… Read More »No Round 2 For PreKindergarten: Now What?
A month ago we broke the news about the brand new district-wide public school opening up in Williamsburg this fall. Brooklyn Arbor, will open its doors in September to K-2 students and has garnered a… Read More »New Public School Hosts Meet and Greet
Are you raising your child bilingual? Or teaching them about different cultures, exposing them to other religions? Then you are raising a global child- a child that will be “at home in the world.”… Read More »Raising Global Citizens: World Brooklyn Event
The educational system is full of acronyms that tend to make me more nervous than the long, uninformative names that they replace. Sometimes though, we just have to dive in and call all of them… Read More »Information Sessions on New IEP Forms
Don’t feel sorry for the former owner of the historic music venue Southpaw- he’s happy to get out of Park Slope. “I’m kind of over Park Slope — it’s not a destination for nightlife anymore,”… Read More »Southpaw Closed- NY Kids Club Opening in Park Slope
NYC High school applicants can choose from 400 NYC high schools…..but obviously some of those schools are better than others. Which ones? The most sought-after schools are published each year in the DOE’s annual… Read More »Top 10 Desired High Schools in NYC 2012