The Brooklyn Ink

Declining Enrollment Causes Three Schools to Merge

At the beginning of September, Salve Regina Catholic Academy (nursery-8) opened its doors, a brand new Catholic school in East New York that formed from the merger of three struggling schools—St. Rita’s and St. Michael’s [...]

Teacher Layoffs Through Time

By Aliza Moorji Teacher layoffs are nothing new; schools have always been a target for budget cuts. The city’s schools are now in the heat of yet another proposed round of cuts that may mean [...]

City’s School Librarians on Borrowed Time

By Alex Alper “The Skin I’m In” is a popular young adult fiction book with Middle Schoolers at the Urban Assembly School for Urban Environment in Brooklyn, New York. But when they want to read [...]

After school program aids working parents

Sherry Rodriguez is a single working mother of two boys, ages 7 and 9, who attend the Out of-School-Time (OST) afterschool program at P.S 282 Park Slope School. The OST programs provide students in neighborhoods across the city with a variety of academic, artistic and recreational activities free of charge.

Tilden High School Offering Students Last Chance To Graduate

By Gabe Kahn Steve Lampert got up from his chair at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn in mid-June, about two weeks before the final graduation in its history. He grabbed his cell phone [...]

Park Slope, Ft. Greene School Programs Are Cut

After-school programs at PS 295 and PS 282 in Park Slope, along with the summer program at IS 113 in Fort Greene are being eliminated by the Department of Youth and Development as part of [...]

Brooklyn principal under investigation

Yolanda Ramirez, principal of PS 38, is being investigated after reports that she threatened teachers who gave her poor reviews on an Education Department survey. Nearly 60% of teachers at the Pacific Street school said [...]