Tag: public schools

The news we broke about the city's effort to find developers willing to redevelop the sites of two Upper West Side public schools has shocked local parents. PS 191 on 61st street and PS 199 on 70th street could be demolished and redeveloped as high-rises with new schools inside them. ...

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 199, an elementary school, is one of the most highly ...

Jurors were unable to come to a verdict in the trial of a teacher's aide at PS 87 accused of molesting a 9-year-old special education student last year. That could mean prosecutors will be forced to retry the teacher. The aide, Gregory Atkins, made the boy undress multiple times to ...

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 more room for charter elementary school Upper West Success Academy, ...

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 December, and people at the school suspect that the gang ...

December 17, 2012 Weather: Cloudy, High of 46 Degrees.

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 Diploma Plus High School, one of the high schools in ...

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 was a

October 24, 2012 Weather: Showers, High of 60 Degrees.

August 15, 2012 Weather: Afternoon Thunderstorms, High of 82 Degrees.

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 raised huge sums: from $500,000+ at PS 199 to more ...

April 5, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 57 Degrees.

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 of parents and local leaders is calling on the city ...

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 loves to look at rankings. The problem is: the numbers, ...

Since we reported on the teacher's assistant who was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a young boy at PS 87 at 160 West 78th Street, more details have emerged about the case. Gregory Atkins, the 56-year-old teacher's assistant, was arraigned over the weekend, and is being held on $250,000 ...

A scary story crossed the wires late on Friday: a teacher's aide at PS 87, one of the most highly regarded schools in the neighborhood, has been arrested for sexually abusing a student, the New York Times reported first. The aide, Gregory Atkins, 56, has been at the school since ...

January 11, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 43 Degrees.

January 5, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 38 Degrees.

October 27, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 54 Degrees

October 14, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 71 Degrees.