Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a year full of growth and lots of relevant educations information for our fellow parents in 2012. We’ve been busy working on updating the site with new features to help you with your school search that will be rolled out soon. In the meantime, we’ll continue to [...]
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Hunter Announces SB5 Cut Score Today
The following message was posted on Hunter’s website today: This year’s modified Stanford-Binet V testing for Kindergarten 2012 admissions has concluded. The eligibility score for progression to Round 2 (on-site assessment) has been set at a Sum of Scaled Scores (SSS) of 148. Letters will be mailed on December 19th informing eligible families of their [...]
Chair of Popular Harlem Charter School Steps Down
The Chair of The New York French American Charter SchoolElementary or secondary schools that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school’s charter. While [...]
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Update on School Bus Strike
After the Mayor’s press conference last Friday and Chancellor Walcott’s letter home warning of “an immediate system-wide, and in our view, illegal, strike by our bus drivers’ union—local 1181—that could impact yellow bus service for more than 152,000 students citywide”, parents are left wondering what will happen with school bus transportation. Leonie Haimson over at [...]
Manhattan Borough President Wants to Improve NYC Kindergarten Admission Process
An email on one of my parent listserves a few weeks ago said “Help! Confused about the K admissions process.” This is not uncommon feeling at this time of year as many parents are knee deep in the private school applications process. However, many are surprised to hear that, with the exception of Hunter and G&T [...]
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Possible DOE Immediate School Bus Strike
The NYC Schools Chancellor, Dennis Walcott, sent a letter to parents today alerting them to the strong possibility of an immediate system-wide strike by yellow school bus drivers. Here is the text of the letter: November 18, 2011 Dear Parent or Guardian, We are writing to inform you of the strong possibility of an immediate [...]
Parents Weigh In On the NYC Public High School Admissions Process
School admissions in New York City is not for the faint of heart. Gone are the days of just walking to your neighborhood school and signing your child up to attend. Instead, we have school choice, where parents and children get to choose from the many offerings. But sometimes too much choice is not a [...]
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Applying to Schools? Then Come to Our School Information and Networking Night
‘Tis the Season…the school application season…and everyone is talking about schools — at the playground, on anonymous online message boards, at the supermarket– but are you talking to the right people and are you getting the right information? How do you know what the right school is? What do you really need to know about tours, [...]
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Hunter College Elementary Date Change For Round 2 Kindergarten Admissions
Hunter College Elementary School (HCES) has announced that it has added a second weekend to its kindergarten Round 2 admission dates and has eliminated the two weekdays. HCES had originally set January 28, 29, 30, 31 as the days that parents should save for Round 2 onsite assessment. Round 2 sessions will now be held [...]
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Pre-kindergarten registration for this school year ends on October 28, 2011!
There is still time to enroll in a Pre-K program for the 2011-2012 academic year! You can still enroll your four-year-old in a Universal Pre-kindergarten (UPK) program at a public school or an early childhood community-based organization (CBO) program. Universal Pre-kindergarten programs are free for children who turn four by December 31, 2011 and live [...]
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