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The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online
Talfourd Lawn Elementary School: Briarwood: PS 54: Hillside Hillside: PS 55: Maure: South Richmond Hill: PS 79: Francis Lewis: Whitestone: Francis Lewis (March 21, 1713 – December 30, 1803) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York. He moved to Whitestone, New York in 1734. [28] PS 80 ...
The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online ...
In 1961, David H. Moskowitz, the Deputy Superintendent for Research and Evaluation for New York City Schools, reported a high transient rate at several elementary schools, including P.S. 9, which ranged from 90 to 99% during the 1959–1960 school year. [9] P.S. 9 moved to a newly constructed building on Columbus Avenue at West 84th Street in ...
The New York City public school system is the largest in the United States. [33] More than 1.1 million students are taught in more than 1,700 public schools with a budget of nearly $25 billion. [34]
Draper, Andrew S. Origin and development of the New York common school system : an address delivered before the New York State Teachers' Association, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Tuesday evening, July 8, 1890 (1890) 48pp online; Finegan, Thomas E. Free schools; a documentary history of the free school movement in New York state (1921) online; 680pp.
The new building was part of plan to spend one billion dollars on New York City school construction over a ten-year period that began in the late 1950s. [10] Simultaneously building the campuses of P.S. 9 and Brandeis High School (across the street, between 84th and 85th Streets) served a secondary purpose.
According to the New York Times in 1990, there were 16 nursery-school students and 32 kindergarten students in each year's incoming class. [3] There were about 25 times as many applicants as available seats in each class. [4] According to the New York Times in 2009, there were more than 1,800 applicants for an incoming class of 50 students.