Martin Luther Baseball Team Aiming for Victory
Just two years removed from being crowned the Private School Athletics Association Division II champions, Maspeth’s Martin Luther School baseball team is looking to return…
Education
Maspeth High Student’s Star Shooting Higher
Despite popular belief, Kristen Baez does get enough sleep at night. It might be hard to believe, though, considering the 16-year-old junior from Maspeth High…
Funds Boost Briarwood School’s Graduating Class
The Queens Chamber of Commerce teamed up with Briarwood’s PS 117 alumni and parents to raise a total $7,000 for this year’s graduating class to…
City Strikes Nine-Year Deal With UFT
The Delegate Assembly of the United Federation of Teachers voted in favor of a contract that would secure a nine-year, $5.5 billion deal with the…
Op-Ed: Environmental Benefits of the QueensWay
This past weekend, Friends of the QueensWay and dozens of supporters of the QueensWay project helped celebrate Earth Day by organizing a community cleanup. We…
CEC 24 Tackles School Overcrowding
A community hearing on rezoning Corona schools drew a hefty crowd as parents and administrators heard the city’s plans to build a new school in…
At WRBA, Woodhaven Charter School Leaders Vow to Meet Community Needs
Educational leaders and volunteers from a charter school proposed to open in Woodhaven this coming fall told residents at a meeting last week that they…
District 24 Seeks Answers to Corona’s Long Overcrowded Classrooms
Concerned parents in Queens will hear a potential fix to overcrowding in Corona schools at this month’s Community Education Council 24 meeting. It is an…
City Approves Controversial Woodside School Plan Slammed by Parents
The city Panel for Educational Policy voted in favor of temporarily relocating hundreds of Woodside students to a school on the other side of the…
Success for Forest Hills School’s First Speech Squad
It was another celebration of firsts for the new Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Forest Hills. The school’s speech team competed its way to the…
De Blasio Boasts Pre-K Program in Ridgewood
Mayor Bill de Blasio picked a school in Ridgewood to push his universal pre-kindergarten program, for which parents have until the end of April to…
Katz Appoints Kittredge to Community Education Council 28
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz appointed a Forest Hills parent to her hometown education council. Ann Kittredge, a parent of public school children who attend…
Forest Hills School Celebrates Successful Crowd-Funded Musical
A man-eating plant never meant so much to these Forest Hills students. A cast of 58 8th, 9th and 10th graders capped off a successful…
Conference Set in Teacher’s Harassment Case Against Former Middle Village Principal
A settlement conference has been scheduled between a former Middle Village teacher and her boss accused of sexual harassment, court records showed. Special education teacher…
CEC 24 Slams City Over PS 229 Bus Problems
PS 229 parents in Woodside are calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to find a new solution to an old problem. Community Education Council 24…