UFT Assistant Treasurer Tom Brown was among the many honorees at the annual District 20 Scholarship Dinner Dance as some 250 guests looked on at the El Caribe Restaurant in Brooklyn on May 20.
It’s all “hakuna matata” — “no worries” — at PS 346 in Brooklyn, where a “pride” of around 50 students in grades 3 to 5 performed an abridged version of Disney’s hit musical “The Lion King” on May 29.
The coaches and student athletes at Frederick Douglass Academy have been transforming Colonel Young Park, a filthy and forbidding park ithree blocks from their school, nto a clean and safe green space that the school's sports teams can use.
In the sixth annual Art of Giving event organized by Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford, 5th-graders at PS 51 in Manhattan donated their artwork to brighten the hallways of the Henry J. Carter Hospital and Nursing Facility on June 8.
Creativity, leadership and academic rigor were among the characteristics of the 12 winners of the third annual Big Apple Awards, which celebrate the work of public school teachers.
MaryEllen Elia, who displayed a readiness to work with teachers and their union during her 10 years as school superintendent in Hillsborough County, Florida, was the unanimous choice of the state Board of Regents on May 26 to become New York State...