Tag: Board of Education

  • Playground Site For Lab Irks Nabe By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    Wednesday, May 2, 2001 A plan to build a high school science lab on an elementary school playground in Midwood is drawing fire from some parents. The Board of Education wants to build the laboratory for Midwood High School students on a portion of the playground used by elementary school students. “We are outraged, very…

  • Rudy Backs Regents Requirement

    Sunday, November 16, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday supported the state Board of Regents’ new foreign language requirement for high school graduates, setting up a possible showdown with Chancellor Rudy Crew. “The system should introduce more languages,” Giuliani said at a Bensonhurst news conference. “It’s an excellent idea.…

  • Teachers, Principals Eye Edition Additions

    November 9, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LAURA WILLIAMS, Daily News Staff Writers City teachers and principals yesterday were drawing up shopping lists to spend $70 million promised by Mayor Giuliani for new textbooks. “I already have my orders worked up,” said Yve Douglass, principal of Public School 3 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “At the…