Bronx New School Parents Still Looking for Answers

PS 51 Parents United, a group of concerned parents of children who attend or used to attend PS 51 (The Bronx New School), will be looking for support and answers from state officials at a Bronx Community Board 7 meeting tonight in Bedford Park. Last year, inspectors discovered high levels of trichloroethylene (TCE), a toxin linked to cancer, at the Bedford Park building (3200 Jerome Ave.) Bronx New School called home for two decades.

DOE Plans to Close Middle School 80

Amid a backdrop of plummeting test scores, gang problems and a bitter showdown between the teachers union and the Department of Education, Middle School 80 in Norwood is facing closure and a complete overhaul of its staff and administration.

With Overhaul on Horizon, MS 80 Principal Replaced

After recently announcing Norwood’s MS 80 was slated for closure and a complete overhaul of its administration and staff, the Department of Education moved swiftly to replace the school’s principal since 2004, Lovey Mazique-Rivera. Her last day was Friday. On Monday, parents received notice that the school would be led by acting Principal Lauren Reiss.

Bronx Notes: Discussion on School Re-organization Plans

To talk about the re-organization of MS 80 and other Bronx schools, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is inviting elected officials, education activists, community leaders and parents to a forum next Thursday, March 15, at 6 p.m., at the Morris Educational Campus Auditorium, 1110 Boston Road. Elaine Gorman, the chief executive of the DOE’s turnaround program, will be on hand to speak.

Bronx Notes: Charter School Open House

Tech International Charter School invites students in the 5th grade interested in becoming part of its middle school, and their parents, to its open house at the Kingsbridge Library, 291 W. 231st St., Wednesday March 14, from 6 to 7 p.m.

Be Healthy! Wednesdays: Bronx Advocates Condemn Proposed Tabacco Control Cuts

Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, Breaking Bronx features a health-related story, event or tidbit as part of an online expansion of our Be Healthy! column. Anti-smoking groups in the Bronx and across the state are deriding a proposed budget plan that would slash tobacco control funding by $5 million this year, a cut they say could reverse the strides New York has made in getting residents to quit the habit and could lead to more young people taking up smoking. “While we have seen a decrease in smoking rates, we still have over 850,000 smokers, many of whom are the most

Fordham University students took to the streets last week to demand change in how the Bronx Jesuit school approaches multiculturalism and how it handles acts of racism and bias.

Bronx Links, Wednesday

Good morning! Welcome back to Breaking Bronx. We’re in for another beautiful day of spring weather today, with plenty of sunshine and a high of 68. Enjoy it. Here are the local news stories we’re following this Wednesday: Local leaders and politicians are once again looking for ways to battle the ongoing problem of dog poop on sidewalks here in the Bronx. Raising fines and increasing funding for enforcement of the city’s pooper-scooper law are among the suggestions, according to the Daily News. Opening arguments being today in the corruption trial of former Bronx State Sen. Pedro Espada. Espada and

Two Fridays ago, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for Mosholu Gardens, an eight-story housing development with 63 low-income units located at 245 Mosholu Parkway North, in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx.