Education & Kids

Junior High / High School

A popular after-school program that serves hundreds of kids from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights is on the chopping block due to city budget cuts. But supporters of the Beacon program at McKinley Intermediate School said they’re not going down without a fight.  … Full Article

An innovative program in Brooklyn is exposing young women to the lucrative field of engineering.  … Full Article

First-year New York City College of Technology (City Tech) students Jessica Guerra and Michael Youmans have taken two top prizes in this year’s City University of New York (CUNY)/Labor Arts “Making Work Visible” Contest.  … Full Article

Public Advocate and Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said Monday that dangerous PCB-containing lighting fixtures were removed from the politically-connected  … Full Article

The Brooklyn teacher who started the tradition of “Sing!,” an annual student-produced satirical musical comedy that became a tradition in New York City high schools, rece … Full Article

Searching for compromise on a divisive issue, the Boy Scouts of America is proposing to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays — allowing them as youth members but continuing to bar them as adult leaders. … Full Article

The ballroom of the Bay Ridge Manor looked like the dress department at Macy’s on Tuesday, as scores of teenage girls arrived to pick out the elegant dresses they would wear to the senior prom. … Full Article

Eighth-graders who didn’t get a match during the first round in the New York City high school application process – or who don’t like what they got – have another chance in Round 2. … Full Article

New York City Republican Mayoral candidate and former MTA CEO & Chairman Joe Lhota will deliver the keynote address at Poly Prep Country Day School during the school’s 156th commencement on Friday, May 31, at Poly Prep’s Dyker Heights camp … Full Article

Once a month, former military men and women undergoing treatment for various ailments at the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Medical Center receive visits from high school students who bring them cookies and play cards with them. … Full Article