Results tagged “schoolboard”

The fight over the right for school children to bear cell phones in schools moved to the Appellate Court, where lawyers for NYC and public school students' parents appeared before a five-judge panel. This comes after the City Council passed a bill allowing cell phones in schools, which the Mayor vetoed.

school begins seems to have settled down. The Department of Education apologized for the umpteenth time and even Mayor Bloomberg admitted that the changes didn't go very well (he did emphasize the savings were worth it). Of course, it's questionable how much the DOE will save after this mess.

As we enjoy these last dog days of summer, savvy New Yorkers know that it's not too early to think about ordering tickets for some of the cool shows arriving on the fall theater scene, just around the corner.

Scheming, plagiarizing, Harvard-accepted-and-rescinded, GPA-inflated Blair Hornstine has settled with Moorestown School Board for $60,000 and to be named the sole valedictorian. According to the Times, the statement recognized Ms. Hornstine as the valedictorian of the Class of 2003 and acknowledged that "the court documents filed by Blair Hornstine were accurate," BUT the school board denied any wrongdoing in a separate statement. Gothamist suspects that while the school board wanted to get this settled before the new school year, Hornstine also wanted to settle the matter quickly after the revelations of her plagiarized work in a local newspaper. There's no way she could really get $2.7 million after her stupid ways were revealed.