EDITORIAL: Charter a new course
This is a bad time for those who have lined up to throw stones at the concept of charter schools. According to scores released Friday, nearly 80 percent of the eighth-grade children failed to pass a standardized statewide math exam. And 65 percent of thes
EDITORIAL: It’s all about choice
We don’t know of any public school in all of Queens that offers courses in Chinese, Korean or Japanese. This is remarkable when one considers the fact that more then 3 billion people live in mainland China and that economists predict that the Pacifi
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