Two Local Schools May Close
July 20, 2010
On June 25, the city released a list of high schools that will either close or be replaced beginning in the fall of 2011, including two local schools–Grace H. Dodge Career and Technical High School and the Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology.
Read More »White House “Drug Czar” Visits The Mary Mitchell Center
June 22, 2010
The director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy visited the Mary Mitchell Center in Crotona on June 7 to officially launch a new nationwide anti-drug youth campaign.
Read More »Fordham Students Garden for Justice
June 22, 2010
Students at Fordham High School for the Arts (FHSA), at 500 E. Fordham Rd., officially opened their own community garden on June 11, where they served food and refreshments made with their own homegrown herbs and vegetables.
Read More »C.S. 211 Students Harvest Their Own Vegetable Garden
June 22, 2010
Students at C.S. 211 on Prospect Avenue held a “harvest festival” on June 9, picking the vegetables and herbs they’ve been growing themselves since April and turning them into healthy meals and snacks.
Read More »PS/MS 3 Students Win Grant to Beautify Park
May 25, 2010
A group of students at PS/MS 3 are making headway in their efforts to transform a park near their school–five acres of scrappy fields at East 181st Street between Quarry Road and Hughes Avenue.
Read More »Serrano Sees Bronx Benefits in Student Loan Reform
April 20, 2010
Bronx Congressman Jose E. Serrano recently praised the student loan reform bill that was included within President Obama’s Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Read More »MS 254 Lands a New Library
April 20, 2010
The library at Middle School 254 has been transformed into a “library media center” thanks to a $500,00 grant from former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion.
Read More »Cuts to After-School Programming Draws Protest
November 17, 2009
When school started this past September at three local schools, hundreds of kids, and their parents, had to face the reality that the afterschool program they’d once counted on no longer had room for them.
Read More »School Moves Up From Basement to High Rise
October 20, 2009
While stuck in a Manhattan College basement, the Jonas Bronck Academy became one of the most successful middle school programs in the northwest Bronx.
But since its inception 12 years ago, the school community has longed for a space of its own.
Read More »Local Students Look to Transform Neglected Quarry Road Ballfields
October 20, 2009
Students at PS/MS 3 are challenging the Parks Department to take a look at the Quarry Road Ballfields – and to join them in rehabilitating the park, five acres of worn out football and soccer fields on East 181st between Quarry Road and Hughes Avenue.
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