David Andreatta
The Archive
IRAQ GI SALUTES CITY ARAB SCHOOL
May 28, 2007 | 9:00amAs resistance in Brooklyn to a public school focused on Arabic language and culture persists, a U.S. soldier has emerged as its unlikely champion. Army Sgt. Patrick Kowalchuk, 28, who...
N.Y. SCHOOLKIDS AT HEAD OF THE CLA$$
May 25, 2007 | 9:00amAs the state prepares to pump an additional $1.76 billion into its schools over the next fiscal year, U.S. Census figures released yesterday show New York topping the country in...
SON OF A GUN
May 25, 2007 | 9:00amA pistol-packing 7-year-old Queens boy did the showing, his classmate did the telling, and his NYPD meter-maid mom and brother could do the paying. Second-grader Christopher Clarke was hauled out...
GOOGLE EXPELS CHEAT SITES
May 24, 2007 | 9:00amTerm paper and student essay services joined online hookers, gun dealers and computer hackers yesterday on a list of advertisers banned by Google, as the world's largest search engine announced...
'OLDER & WISER' ON CITY READING SCORES
May 23, 2007 | 9:00amThe share of New York City students reading and writing at grade level fell in the elementary grades but rose in middle school this year, closing the gap on a...
CITY'S POMP OVER RECORD HS GRAD RATES
May 22, 2007 | 9:00amNew York City's high-school graduation rate reached a record high of nearly 60 percent last year, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday as he sought to settle a thorny debate with the...
HACKS WANT A LIFT
May 18, 2007 | 9:00amBig Apple cabbies, notorious for their bulging bellies and clogged arteries, are hoping to get off their beaded chairs and do a bench press between fares at JFK Airport. The...
PRINCIPAL PACT
May 17, 2007 | 9:00amNew York City public-school principals and other administrators overwhelmingly ratified their contract deal with the city that calls for a 23 percent raise in exchange for fewer seniority rights, their...
ARAB SCHOOL'S ROOM GLOOM
May 15, 2007 | 9:00amPut them in trailers, put them in an empty schoolhouse, put them anywhere but in our building - because it's bursting at the seams. That was the resounding message last...
CRICKET BOWLS OVER HS KIDS
May 13, 2007 | 9:00amNew York City public schools have gone googly-eyed for cricket - the sport of googlies and overs with breaks for tea. Next year, the city will become the first school...
LAST 'DITCH' BID
May 11, 2007 | 9:00amThe board of directors at an embattled Bronx charter high school said yesterday it would launch an investigation into the school and that the principal would no longer oversee instruction,...
ARAB SCHOOL FINDS A HOME
May 10, 2007 | 9:00amLess than a week after dropping plans to house a new Arabic-language secondary school inside a Brooklyn elementary-school building, the city Department of Education yesterday announced a new home for...
CASHING IN ON KIDS
May 9, 2007 | 9:00amScores of city public schools can expect a boost of roughly $400,000 this fall under a new funding formula that ties cash to student characteristics, including their family income and...
CLASS CELL BAN STANDS
May 8, 2007 | 9:00amLet cellphones ring - just not in city public schools. A state judge yesterday backed the city's ban on cellphones in public schools, which was challenged by parents who argued...
CITY ARAB SCHOOL MOVE DEFEATED
May 5, 2007 | 9:00amResponding to an outcry from parents, the city yesterday dropped plans to have a Brooklyn elementary school share its building with a new Arabic-language secondary school. Education officials insisted the...
TOTS TEETER ON EDGE OF LOSING CLASS SPOT
May 4, 2007 | 9:00amPre-kindergartners at coveted Lower East Side elementary schools could be tossed out on their little keisters thanks to enforcement of an admissions policy that parents say had previously been ignored....
TEACHER HITS A BAD SPELL
May 3, 2007 | 9:00amYo, koach, ever hurd of a spelchekker? A Staten Island gym teacher entered foul territory when he fired off an error-riddled rant to parents of nearly 100 eighth-graders, punishing the...
DAZED AIR CONTROLLERS 'FUMING'
May 3, 2007 | 9:00amThe skies were clear, but a half-dozen air-traffic controllers on Long Island say they were in a mind fog while directing hundreds of planes last week after toxic fumes seeped...
IT'S YOUR CHANCE TO GRADE CITY SCHOOLS
May 1, 2007 | 9:00amPublic-school students, parents and teachers - sharpen your pencils! More than 1.8 million people in those groups are the intended focus of new annual satisfaction surveys unveiled yesterday as part...
DESPERATE CITY 'OUT' TO RESCUE SCHOOLS
April 30, 2007 | 9:00amHelp! Facing a steady decline in student performance through the middle grades and pressure to combat that decline, the city is seeking an outside firm to help it devise a...