Hold on, Columbia University students—you may not be able to major in “Mic-Checking The Man” anymore! A course offered by the Ivy League school ‘s Anthropology Department titled “Occupy the Field” has been evicted from the school’s course bulletin Was Tony Bologna involved ? [ more › ]

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Columbia Students May Not Get Credit For Occupying Wall Street After All

Following the release of Mayor Bloomberg’s hit list of 19 schools that “just don’t do the job,” it behooves the ones who survived to shape up or face the impending municipal axe. Or, cut back on reporting things that would get you there. Parents and former employees of the Lower East Side’s Marta Valle High School are claiming Principal Mimi Fortunato is attempting to play down the number of violent altercations and lax attendance policy to avoid closure. “See how I get a drink?” one truant student told a Post reporter outside the school. “If there was discipline, I’d be in class.” [ more › ]

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LES High School Allegedly Underreporting Violence To Prevent Closure

If Elisabeth “Babby” Krents didn’t have a healthy ego before—doubtful since she’s been running admissions for the posh UES Dalton School for 15 years now—she’s gotta have one now! In the last four months the 61-year-old has been the subject of praise-filled profiles first in the Wall Street Journal and now in the New York Times . But we can live with that—because really, how else would we know that Babby defended her Ph.D dissertation at Columbia on the same day she delivered her second daughter? No wonder she scares people. [ more › ]

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Dalton’s Admissions Director Likes Fudge, Long Walks

                                                                      The Vintage Tea & Swing Dancing Party took place on Saturday afternoon, bringing the Roaring Twenties underground to the 2nd Avenue F train platform… which actually didn’t exist until 1936, but it’s okay! [ more › ]

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Photos: The Vintage Subway Party Brought Riders Back To The ’20s This Weekend

Parents around the city breathed a heavy sigh of relief after the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal last summer irrevocably made sexting uncool. And just this month, a new study found that reports of teen sexting have been greatly over-exaggerated in the press. But it seems one Bensonhurst, Brooklyn junior high school has done its best to buck that trend. [ more › ]

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Bensonhurst Junior High School Is The Sexting Capital Of NYC

Aha: After the surprising announcement from Stanford University that it was dropping out of the race to build a high-tech school campus in New York City, there was much speculation as to why the apparent frontrunner did so (Mayor Bloomberg had previously bragged that the school was “desperate” to build). Now here’s one possibile reason: Cornell received a $350 million anonymous donation to go towards its proposal. [ more › ]

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Cornell Gets $350 Million Gift For Its NYC Tech Campus Bid

Angela Jewth is living a parent’s nightmare . Her only son, 9-year-old Jonathan, died Wednesday—nine days after a choking incident at his Bronx school left him clinging to life in the hospital. Now she is getting ready to sue the city to find out why it appears nobody at P.S. 47 knew how to properly clear the healthy boy’s airways of a rogue meatball. ” If something had been done differently, my son would’ve been alive today, ” Jewth told the Daily News. [ more › ]

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9-Yr-Old Bronx Boy Dies After Choking On School Meatballs

“These aren’t marginally bad schools or non-performing schools,” Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday regarding the list of schools the Department of Education wants to shut down or truncate this year. ” They just don’t do the job, this is no question they’re not doing the job. ” In a two-part process the city released a list of 19 schools that are facing execution at the end of the school year— including one Manhattan school with a violent rep that included an assault on a pregnant woman —as well as six schools that may have their middle school grades removed. “This is about student performance, student outcome, making sure we improve our schools and making sure students are college ready and career ready,” schools chancellor Dennis Walcott assured parents today. [ more › ]

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City Announces 19 Schools On The Chopping Block

Things are not looking good for Sharron Smalls, the principal of the troubled Jane Addams High School in the South Bronx. It was bad enough that her “persistently low-achieving” school got a terrible independent external review which recommended it be shut down—she’s also become embroiled in a massive course credit scandal . Students have turned on her now too, accusing her of charging them for free parking . Oh, and they also plastered a scantily clad photo of her grinding with a half-naked man around the school. [ more › ]

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Students Plaster School With Principal’s Sexy Facebook Photo

Things seem to be getting more and more awkward for the New School, who are dealing with Occupy New School students who have entrenched themselves in the school’s study space at 90 Fifth Avenue a week and a half ago. New School President David Van Zandt, who has been quite supportive of the protesters efforts, has been trying to negotiate with students to change locations to a New School gallery nearby to no avail. And it seems that other New School students are getting mighty tired of the occupation as well: “We believe in their rights to Occupy, but when they claim this is for all students city wide, and harass actual New School students the right to enter to study, they are hypocrites.” [ more › ]

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