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The school would replace Norman Thomas High School, which is being phased out due to poor performance. Home Page Top Stories on DNAINFO.com – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 4:34am

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By KAITLYN MEADE | Children’s Warehouse ballet school just opened in Battery Park City. A new ballet school opened last week in Battery Park City, focused on making ballet accessible to young children, as parents enroll their kids in dance lessons at younger and younger ages. Children’s Warehouse, a ballet studio for children ages three [...]

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A science project caused a scare at a Brooklyn high school this morning, cops said. An object that looked like a missile was found in the basement of Sheepshead Bay High School about 9:55 a.m. A school safety officer called 911, and the students were evacuated, authorities said… NY Post: Local News

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A massive tornado was bearing down on Oklahoma City Monday evening, bring another terrifying twister to a state still digging out from Sunday’s horrible storms.      New York News – NY Daily News

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In the self portrait, her wild, curly blonde hair is tousled to one side of her face, the two sharp arrows from her lip ring poke out the left corner of her mouth and her eyebrows arch upward in a look of skepticism. Samantha Morales said drawing this picture was the hardest thing she’s ever done. “I was [...]

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The wait continues for solutions to Lower Manhattan’s perennial school wait lists. In a sense, the problem is unavoidable, given the city until now has decided not to make accurate population projections Downtown. There’s no sense continuing to beat up the Department of Education when there are real, immediate decisions that the city could make [...]

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Barbara Monahan, 97, a longtime teacher at Manchester’s Nathan Hale School, died March 31. “She used to walk to school every day,” said Celeste McLaughlin, Monahan’s stepdaughter. “The kids who she taught would remember Mrs. Monahan because they always… New York City

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School safety agents participated in a community-run training session in the Bronx earlier this year. When Lynn Sanchez, a Bronx parent activist, challenged police and education officials to address persistent school climate problems during a public forum on school safety last year, she did not think they would say yes. And yet just months later, [...]

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She danced before she died. The final hours of tragic high school basketball star Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy were remembered by her sister in tearful testimony today in the Manhattan murder trial of two men blamed in her senseless shooting. “My sister talked me into coming downstairs with her a while… NY Post: Manhattan

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Sources tell NY1 that the son of a construction union vice president became today the fifth construction worker arrested in connection with the alleged stealing of 84 iPads from a Queens school badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Top Stories – NY1

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A court on Thursday reaffirmed a decision that stopped the city from closing 24 struggling public schools last year on the argument it would be violating teacher contracts. Top Stories – NY1

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A Bronx school bus driver fed up with motorists ignoring the law and breezing by his flip-out stop sign decided to capture the drivers on video, and so he spent much of this school year recording them,…Photo Credit: NBC 4 New York NBC New York – Local

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Charter school advocates touted record-high demand for seats. (GothamSchools, Post, Daily News) As charter demand increases, so have the seats — and chances that students get one. (Schoolbook) Joel Klein and Sol Stern say hardliners on the left and right should embrace the Common Core. (WSJ) Merryl Tisch’s support for Bill Thompson is a political break [...]

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A 13-year-old is being charged after bringing a bb-gun to a Downtown Brooklyn school, a law enforcement source said. The boy is being charged with criminal possession of a weapon after the weapon was discovered around 3 p.m. at the Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist School on LaFayette Avenue, the… NY Post: Brooklyn

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Candidates the union fought and StudentsFirstNY aided won Buffalo school board seats. (Buffalo News) One of the winners was Carl Paladino, the not-politically correct 2010 candidate for governor. (HuffPo) A parent lawsuit targets the city’s and state’s slow pace of approving special education judgments. (NY1) The Department of Education told schools they must conduct lockdown [...]

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