EXCLUSIVE: THE CITY IS CONSIDERING PLANS TO DEMOLISH PS 199 AND PS 191 (UPDATED WITH CITY RESPONSE)
In somewhat shocking news, we have learned that the city has solicited and received proposals from developers to demolish PS 199 on West 70th Street and PS 191 on West 61st Street and build luxury towers on their sites. PS … Read the rest of this entry >>
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WITHDRAWS PLAN TO MOVE UWS HIGH SCHOOL
Late last year, the city proposed moving Innovative Diploma Plus High School, a high school for older transfer students, out of the old Brandeis High School on 84th Street, and into a building in Washington Heights. The plan would make … Read the rest of this entry >>
THEFTS AND THREATS AT SCHOOL ON 93RD STREET RAISE ALARMS; GANG CONNECTION CITED
Parents and staff members at the Joan of Arc schools complex on 93rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues say that a gang is intimidating and robbing students at the school. Two students were mugged for their cell phones in … Read the rest of this entry >>
PARENTS, LEADERS PROTEST PROPOSAL TO MOVE HIGH SCHOOL
Brandeis High School on West 84th Street has become home to a hodge-podge of different high schools, as well as Upper West Success Academy, Eva Moskowitz’s controversial charter school. Now the city Department of Education is considering closing down Innovative … Read the rest of this entry >>
UPPER WEST SIDERS HAVE REAL POLITICAL POWER FOR THE NEXT YEAR; WILL WE USE IT?
Like most Upper West Siders, you probably cast your vote in this year's election knowing it would have little practical effect. The presidential candidates paid no attention to New York state, because the outcome here … Read the rest of this entry >>
SCHOOL TEST SCORES RELEASED: WHO GOT A’S, WHO GOT F’S?
The city just released grades for public schools all over the city, including the ones in District 3, which includes the Upper West Side. The grades are controversial, and they can be hard to decipher — the city tends to … Read the rest of this entry >>
IS IT FAIR THAT THE PS 87 PTA CAN RAISE $1.5 MILLION, AND POORER SCHOOLS CAN’T?
The New York Times has a somewhat shocking article in this weekend’s paper: it turns out that the PTA at PS 87 on West 78th Street raised more than $1.5 million for the school this year. Other local schools also … Read the rest of this entry >>
NPR EVISCERATES UPPER WEST SIDE WITH APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKE
Porsafillo Pre, a preschool housed in an IM Pei building on a “leafy corner of the Upper West Side,” has so many applicants — 12,000 for 32 spots — that it has resorted to extreme measures to weed through them. … Read the rest of this entry >>
PARENTS START PETITION, DEMAND NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL
School overcrowding has become a persistent problem on the Upper West Side as the city has approved large developments in the neighborhood, but has been slow to add classroom seats to keep up with the growing population. Now a group … Read the rest of this entry >>
LOCAL TEACHER IS PHENOMENAL/AWFUL, OR WHY IT’S HARD TO TRUST CITY DATA
Even people who don’t agree with a court’s decision to release data rating individual teachers in New York City public schools probably took a peak at the scores for teachers at schools near where they live. How couldn’t they? Everyone … Read the rest of this entry >>
