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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- NY Foundation for the Arts awards $457K to over 130 Queens arts projects
- Smashing success: Thousands gather for for USTA’s AANHPI Tennis Fest in Cunningham Park
- The Rockaway Beach Bazaar returns, kicking off summer at Beach 97th
- Queensboro Dance Festival returns with 30 free dance performances, new partnership
- Family fun day: Douglaston Music and Arts Festival returns Saturday, May 18