David Andreatta
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WW2 HERO'S NEW TITLE: GRAD
April 6, 2007 | 9:00amIrving Sokolofsky earned two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and numerous other commendations for taking a Nazi bullet in the leg at Normandy and still slogging up Utah Beach to...
CITY EYEING $CHOOLS PRIZE
April 5, 2007 | 9:00amFor the third consecutive year, New York City has been named a finalist for one of the most prestigious awards for improving urban public education. The Broad Prize, which has...
SCHOOLS MAY GET A 'PASS'
April 5, 2007 | 9:00amA Bush-administration proposal to let more disabled students take simpler tests than those required under the federal No Child Left Behind Law could lower the number of city schools deemed...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 5, 2007 | 9:00amAn Alabama woman on a midnight horseback ride has been charged with DUI after her steed rammed a police car and bolted, authorities said. "She wouldn't stop. She kept riding...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 4, 2007 | 9:00amA German soccer player known as a bit of a hot dog is demanding nearly $400,000 from a butcher who named a sausage after him. Bastian Schweinsteiger, whose surname means...
PACE PREXY TO JEWS: SORRY
March 30, 2007 | 9:00amThe president of Pace University has publicly apologized to a campus Jewish group that had accused administrators of using strong-arm tactics to stop a screening of a documentary on radical...
LAFAYETTE HS PRINCIPAL IS OUT
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amThe embattled principal of Lafayette HS in Brooklyn, whose management of the failing school provoked frequent clashes with students, teachers and alumni, will step down tomorrow to take a new...
RAP FLAP AT 'PRUDE U.'
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amTwo months after banning a campus performance of "The Vagina Monologues" because of its "unsuitable subject matter," St. John's University has opened its doors to a potty-mouthed rapper who's been...
POL PUSH VS. SCHOOL CHANGES
March 29, 2007 | 9:00amMore than half the City Council yesterday backed a resolution urging the Department of Education to stop its reorganization of the school system. The development was the latest in an...
SAY IT SAINT JOE - TUITION IS 25G
March 28, 2007 | 9:00amThe New York Archdiocese is inviting youngsters back to a Greenwich Village parish schoolhouse it shuttered last year - at $25,000 a pop. Now, working-class parents who had paid about...
NO CLOSETS IN THIS NYU FRAT HOUSE
March 27, 2007 | 9:00amThe newest recognized fraternity at New York University is out - and proud. The first fraternity for gays and bisexuals at NYU has been approved as an official chapter by...
RABBI SCHOOL GAY-OK
March 27, 2007 | 9:00amOy gay! In a historic move that could divide Conservative Jews, the Jewish Theological Seminary announced yesterday that it has lifted a ban on admitting openly gay and lesbian rabbinical...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 27, 2007 | 9:00amA heating company in Ukraine has collected on thousands of unpaid bills by using the image of Stalin to threaten deadbeats. Posters of the feared Soviet dictator were plastered around...
CALL WAITING (& WAITING) FOR SPECIAL-ED PARENTS
March 26, 2007 | 9:00amA majority of parents of special-education students are left hanging on the phone when they call the Education Department for help, a report out today charges. A survey of 98...
SCHOOLS PUSH TO HALT GANGS
March 23, 2007 | 9:00amDeclaring gang activity in public schools rampant and on the rise, state and city officials yesterday pushed legislation that would stiffen penalties for members who recruit or conduct business in...
AUDIT CHOPS 'WASTEFUL' PRE-K $$$
March 22, 2007 | 9:00amThousands of dollars earmarked for pre-kindergarten services in Staten Island and Brooklyn were spent on karate uniforms, a playground revamp and an air conditioner for a non-pre-K location, says an...
SCHOOL 'RAPE' JANITOR FREE
March 22, 2007 | 9:00amA Brooklyn school janitor accused of raping an 8-year-old girl was freed without bail yesterday after prosecutors found inconsistencies in the girl's story, officials said. Francis Evelyn, 58, arrested Monday...
PRINCIPAL GETS BOOT
March 21, 2007 | 9:00amOfficials have reassigned the principal of a Brooklyn elementary school where a janitor was accused of raping an 8-year-old girl multiple times over a period of several weeks. Solomon Long,...
DRUG 'RACE BIAS'
March 21, 2007 | 9:00amWhite students are far more likely to be offered drugs in New York City public schools than their black, Hispanic and Asian peers, according to a city-sponsored survey released yesterday....
PARENT PROTEST SHAKES SCHOOL-SHAKEUP MEETING
March 20, 2007 | 9:00amDozens of angry parents, students and activists last night disrupted a panel meeting headed by Chancellor Joel Klein, in protest of his planned reorganization of the city's school system. Chanting,...