Tag Archive | NY City Lens

Snow? Cold? Bah! Humbug! School Went on As Usual

By Lucia De Stefani on January 27, 2014 middle school, NYC Schools, public schools, Washington Heights Politics & Policy

Mayor De Blasio kept the city’s schools open last week. While school children barely seemed to notice, not all parents were happy about it.

Change for the Greener for a Few Bronx Sixth-Graders

By Hilary Brueck on September 30, 2013 Bronx, education, Highbridge, middle school, New York, New York City, NYC, NYC Schools, public schools, South Bronx News

For years, this southwest Bronx neighborhood has outsourced its middle schoolers to classrooms outside the hilly enclave rising up to the west of the Grand Concourse. After eight years of petitions to the Department of Education for a school of their own, this year a few local parents got the chance to send their kids to nearby Highbridge, the city’s first LEED-certified green school.