Brooklynites will be treated to a spectacular military air show on Thursday morning, when 24 jets trailing red, white and blue smoke will zoom in formation down the Hudson River towards the Statue of Liberty. Make sure you’re in position before the 9:30 a.m. start time so you don’t miss the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, […]
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here. When it came time to enroll her grandson in school, Esther Fesale put his name in the lottery for a nearby charter. But as the summer wound down without a call or letter, Fesale figured […]
A coalition of Brooklyn activists is asking the education department to hit pause on a plan to overhaul elementary school attendance zones, saying more community input is necessary. Education department leaders are proposing to rezone seven elementary schools in Brooklyn’s District 15 in the hopes of meeting two goals: relieving overcrowding at some of the area’s most […]