Brooklyn High School of the Arts / Khalil Gibran International Academy — 345 Dean St, New York, NY 11217
The years I spent at the A&D were some of the best years of my life. It was such a wonderful school andso totally cool, that we evenvoted not to have a prom. Imagine that?There were many reasons for that, and some too complicated to even get into, but ... »
After a tumultuous first year that included a relocation, lawsuits, a civil rights complaint and the removal of its principal, New York City's first public Arabic-themed school is still struggling with unhappy parents. »
Debbie Almontaser was publicly drummed out of her job as the founder and principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, but she is now the one on the receiving end of a defamation lawsuit filed by members of an organization who attempted to prev... »
The ex-principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, Debbie Almontaser -- and the whole circumstances surrounding her removal from the Arabic-themed school she founded -- finally got a big story in the NY Times. The story is importa... »
In today's Times, a description of the concerted and coordinated effort that went into the resignation of Debbie Amontaser from the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Boerum Hill. Most interesting is the description of conservative groups that are ... »
Erstwhile principal and school founder Debbie Almontaser made the front page of The New York Times today. The article is about how a woman who attempted to found a school based on cultural and religious understanding was forced from her position as the... »
The New York Times has a must read article about how a handful of ideologues, including the execrable Daniel Pipes and a dishonest reporter at the Post, sandbagged the school's principal with a smear campaign. Truly disgusting people.“This was a situat... »
There is a long, long, long story behind Brooklyn’s Khalil Gibran International Academy and its former principal Debbie Almontaser. “Since the school opened in Brooklyn last fall, children have been suspended for carrying weapons, repeatedly gotten int... »
Few New York City schools have gotten the volume of bad press and controversy as the Khalil Gibran School. It has been booted from Park Slope, embroiled in an ugly principal controversy and not embraced in Fort Greene, where it will go next year. Now, ... »
Why does this sound so familiar? The Brooklyn Eagle reports that parents from Fort Greene's P.S. 287 and the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) came together at City Hall Wednesday "to express their mutual outrage over the Department of Educati... »
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