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02/01/2012 07:54 PM

High dropout rate, open questions at schools that closed in 2011 - GothamSchools

High dropout rate, open questions at schools that closed in 2011
GothamSchools
Here are some highlights: The average graduation rate at the high schools in their last year was 44 percent, higher than the 35.2 percent average they posted in 2007, just before the city moved to close them. But at Far Rockaway, just 30 percent of ...

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02/03/2012 03:20 PM

Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality - New York Times

Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality
New York Times
MS. LEWIS, a health care aide, was evicted last month from her home in Far Rockaway, Queens. She was working full time for Able Health Care Services of New York, making about $500 a week tending to an autistic man. In August, because of cuts in ...

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01/27/2012 03:05 PM

Queens Teacher's Aide Charged With Raping Student - Queens Courier

Queens Courier

Queens Teacher's Aide Charged With Raping Student
Queens Courier
The New York City Police Department says Alfred Walcott, 46, of Queens is charged with multiple counts of rape and criminal sex acts. Police say Walcott works at Beach Channel High School in Far Rockaway, where the female student attends school.

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01/11/2012 08:23 PM

New York City Charter School Finds That a Grade of 'C' Means Closing - New York Times

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New York City Charter School Finds That a Grade of 'C' Means Closing
New York Times
For the first time, New York City is closing a charter school for the offense of simply being mediocre. The announcement this week that the city planned to shut Peninsula Preparatory Charter School, a seven-year-old elementary school in Far Rockaway, ...
A 'C' Doesn't Make the Grade in New York CityStateImpact Florida

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01/16/2012 03:42 AM

Richard Feynman: My Favourite Scientist - The Guardian

Richard Feynman: My Favourite Scientist
The Guardian
As a student at Far Rockaway High School in Queens, a borough of New York City, Feynman learned differential and integral calculus. As a sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he applied his interest in mathematics; he took every physics ...

01/25/2012 11:57 AM

Bayside High Stands To Lose $1.7 Million: Marshall - Patch.com

Bayside High Stands To Lose $1.7 Million: Marshall
Patch.com
Borough President Helen Marshall revealed during Tuesday's State of the Borough Address that Bayside High School may take a federal funding hit. By Lauren Evans Borough President Helen Marshall delivered the annual State of the Borough address Tuesday ...

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01/27/2012 01:49 PM

Queens Teacher's Aide Charged With Raping Student - NY1

NY1

Queens Teacher's Aide Charged With Raping Student
NY1
The New York City Police Department says Alfred Walcott, 46, of Queens is charged with multiple counts of rape and criminal sex acts. Police say Walcott works at Beach Channel High School in Far Rockaway, where the female student attends school.

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01/19/2012 07:27 PM

Remainders: Less diversity at city schools that screen students - GothamSchools

Remainders: Less diversity at city schools that screen students
GothamSchools
by Philissa Cramer, at 8:26 pm City high schools that screen students have far fewer poor students and students of color. (Insideschools) Norm Scott turns to literary allusion to critique school closures in Far Rockaway. (The Wave/Ed Notes) Wisconsin ...

01/26/2012 05:14 PM

GABL: National school choice week comes at bleak time for NYC charter school - Washington Times (blog)

Washington Times (blog)

GABL: National school choice week comes at bleak time for NYC charter school
Washington Times (blog)
But School Choice Week comes at a bitter time for the students, parents, and teachers of an elementary charter school in Far Rockaway, Queens: Peninsula Preparatory Academy, founded in 2004, was informed just this month that New York City's charter ...

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01/10/2012 04:25 PM

City to shutter Rockaway Park charter school - New York Daily News

New York Daily News

City to shutter Rockaway Park charter school
New York Daily News
By Clare Trapasso / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The city Education Department announced Monday that it plans to shutter the Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School, in Rockaway Park, Queens, seen here when it opened in the fall of 2004.
Shutdown of Four Charter Schools Planned by City and StateBrooklyn Daily Eagle

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