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Valentine’s Day Parents Night Out – Sat, Feb 11 from 6-9 pm

Urban Martial Arts

You deserve a night out on the town, kid-free. So why not drop your child with us on Sat, Feb 12, 2012 from 6 pm to 9 pm for a night of pizza, fun, and games? »

High school social studies was never like THIS

Brokelyn

Guest burlesquist Dottie Dynamo. Photo by Christopher Butt. When it comes to going to bars,  we’ve all killed off a few brain cells — so why not add a some as well? Say hello to the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies, a new Brooklyn experime... »

DOE Announces New Elementary School Directory

A Child Grows in Brooklyn

The Department of Education announced today that the new 2012-2013 Elementary School Directory is now available online here. The Directory includes information about the kindergarten application process and a list of elementary school choices by distri... »

Sheepshead Bay H.S. Teacher Resigns After Allegedly Asking Student About Anal Sex

Sheepshead Bites

Sheepshead Bay High School (3000 Avenue X) teacher Bart Ocuto resigned in September after complaints were filed of inappropriate and distasteful conversations with several female students, including an alleged incident in which he cornered one girl and... »

Grace Meng ‘Frustrated’ With Mayor Bloomberg’s Response To Lunar New Year Bill

Capitol Confidential

Grace Meng (Photo: NYS Assembly) Assemblywoman Grace Meng doesn't buy Mayor Michael Bloomberg's claim that he can't make Lunar New Year a public school holiday because "you cannot have … a day off from school for every single holiday or we’d have ... »

Monday Links

Brownstoner

How Brooklyn Brewery’s Steve Hindy Spends His Sundays [NY Times] Some Neighborhoods Are Cheaper Than Others to Live In [NY Times] Bracing for $40,000 Tuition at City Private Schools [NY Times] Why is There No Good Chinese Food in Brownstone Brooklyn? [... »

Hundreds March Over Brooklyn Bridge to Protest Ban On Churches Renting Space in Schools

mcbrooklyn

Hundreds of pastors and church-goers (including Comptroller John Liu and other officials, above) rallied in Downtown Brooklyn and then marched over the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday afternoon to protest the city's plan to ban them from renting space in pub... »

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Carroll Park Concert Series Seeks Young Rockers

Carroll Gardens Patch

There is a pivotal scene in the 2003 film School of Rock when Dewey Finn (portrayed by comedian Jack Black) accepts that his tween-aged students have advanced enough to play on their own. "In the words of AC/DC," he tells his class, "We roll tonight...... »

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