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Author: Cassie Giraldo

Profiles / School Choice

Ali Ruiz

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

Age: 17 Neighborhood: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Middle School: MS 51 William Alexander in Park Slope Current School: Started Brooklyn Tech in 2012. Applied in 2011 Most New York City students today would …

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Ethan Moskowitz

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

Age: 13 Neighborhood: Park Slope, Brooklyn Middle School: Park Slope Collegiate High School: Park Slope Collegiate (first and only choice) It was September 2013, the first day of sixth grade at …

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Learning to Behave: One School Cuts Suspensions Using Empathy

April 25, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Cassie Giraldo

Teachers at a Brooklyn 6th through 12th grade school believe students lack the skill, not the will to behave. A new approach to discipline brought its suspension rate down from 23 to 2 percent in 4 years.

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Featured / Multimedia

In Photos: Students “Not Suspects” Paint in Protest

March 31, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Cassie Giraldo

  Students at Park Slope Collegiate, a small 6-12 public school in Brooklyn, have been working for the last year to bring a new mural to their school walls. This …

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Building a Student Movement One Paint Stroke at a Time

March 28, 2016April 26, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

A “Students Not Scanners” movement at Park Slope Collegiate begins with a student-made mural, and a dose of outrage.

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Newark the Next Flint? Newark Schools Begin Testing Children’s Lead Levels

March 18, 2016March 19, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

The New York Times reports that a week after finding unsafe lead levels in the water in Newark, New Jersey, 30 of the district’s 67 schools have shut off their water and …

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BuzzFeed Investigates Rape Case at Brooklyn Middle School

March 18, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

“Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape,” an investigative piece by BuzzFeed News breaks down what happened to a middle school girl referred to as “G” after her …

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In Their Own Words: The volatile world of high school admissions, round two

March 18, 2016April 26, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

Covering Education students speak to middle school students who did not get into their first choice high school for next year. Some heartbreaks, some hope. Read the story in Chalkbeat.org

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Voices of high school admissions, round two

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

Columbia Journalism students from our 2016 Covering Education class teamed up with Chalkbeat New York to speak with middle schoolers and their families about the high school admission process at …

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Chancellor Fariña takes preemptive steps against Opt-Out Movement

March 17, 2016 - by Cassie Giraldo

According to the New York Daily News who obtained a letter addressed to school principals Tuesday night, NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has urged principals to remind parents that the upcoming state …

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