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69-622: The Bayard Rustin Educational Complex , also known as the Humanities Educational Complex , is a "vertical campus" of the New York City Department of Education which contains a number of small public schools. Most of them are high schools — grades 9 through 12 – along with one combined middle and high school – grades 6 through 12. The building, located at West 18th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in

138-510: A Regents Test scandal – in which the school's administration falsified test scores to push up the school's average – and a continuing low graduation rate, the Department of Education announced that the school would not accept any ninth-graders in the fall of 2009, and that it would close after its last students graduate in 2012. By 2005, the school building had already begun to host other, smaller public school entities in addition to

207-413: A 10 out of 10 rating. Students with physical disabilities get priority admission to fully or partially accessible schools. The department has closed many failing elementary, middle (intermediate) and high schools. The buildings of some of the larger schools have been turned into "Campuses" or "Complexes" in which a number of smaller school entities, educationally independent of each other, co-exist within

276-518: A collaboration between NYCDOE and the New England Center for Children , the Horizon program is designed to meet the needs of autistic students who have average to below average intelligence, display mild to moderate language difficulties, and have mild to moderate delays in playing and interacting with other students. Students are expected to participate in standard assessments. Instruction is based on

345-544: A disabled student at PS 371 Lillian L. Rashkis High School in Sunset Park , Brooklyn, exited a back door of her school, went missing and was located three days later at a friend's home. In response to the incident Chancellor Carmen Fariña reassigned the school's principal. A special investigation later found no wrongdoing by any school employees. On October 28th 2014, 21 year old Dyasha Phelps Smith, an autistic student at Brooklyn District 75 school PS368@P293, asphyxiated on

414-609: A muffin, became unconscious and died during the school session. The Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District later found that there was no misconduct on the part of any NYCDOE employee in relation to the incident and no staff were reassigned as a result of the investigation. On December 2nd 2016, 6-year-old Abraham Awawda, an autistic student at District 75 school P.S. K077 in Brooklyn walked out of school, went missing for over an hour, and

483-692: A mural in 1941 for the post office in Woodruff, South Carolina , titled "Cotton Harvest". The mural was restored in 1999 and placed on exhibit in the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, where it is on permanent loan. Lishinsky painted smaller murals for the solarium at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, believed to have been painted over in subsequent years, and the Protestant chapel, later demolished, at

552-581: A pool of substitutes, called the Absent Teacher Reserve . On November 19, 2008, the department and the city's teacher union (the United Federation of Teachers ), reached an agreement to create financial incentives for principals of new schools to hire ATR teachers and guidance counselors. The one hundred largest school districts in the nation (by enrollment) spend an average of $ 14,000 per pupil every year. However, census data from 2017 shows that

621-724: A report that the NYCDOE failed to maintain or improve playgrounds, instead turning them into ad-hoc additional classroom space or parking lots. In January 2011, the DOE began a pilot program called Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health (CATCH) that offers some reproductive health services to students in grades 9–12. Services include providing access to birth control such as condoms , emergency contraceptives , and birth control pills . Starting with 13 high schools, it has grown to serve 90 high schools by 2022. New York City began to offer free lunch to all students in 2017. Beginning in 2000,

690-516: A style allied to Cubism and abstract expressionism the realization of a lifelong pursuit of art grounded in the structural verities that underlie all art of worth. Meaning in art, he averred, comes not primarily from predetermined subject matter, but from the incalculable warmth of the unconscious as it speaks in forms, colors, and their relationships. Because he felt he had but limited time to develop his work, Lishinsky declined most invitations to exhibit, only beginning to emerge once more in exhibits in

759-400: A swimming pool, which was expected to be refurbished and returned to service as of the 2010–2011 academic year, but did not return to service until the 2012-13 school year. The pool is now being used by the schools for recreation as well as a lifeguard training program. New York City Department of Education The New York City Department of Education ( NYCDOE ) is the department of

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828-417: A vocational high school for the textile trades , complete with a textile mill in the basement; the school yearbook was titled The Loom . It was later renamed Straubenmuller Textile High School after the vocational education pioneer Gustave Straubenmuller, then renamed Charles Evans Hughes High School after Governor of New York and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes . In 1952,

897-577: A whole. Following the end of the federal art programs, and faced with the need to support his wife and four young children, Lishinsky became a salesman. With his buoyant charm, integrity, and ready wit, he was successful, raising his family in a home he bought in 1950 in Flatbush. Although he never ceased to paint in his spare time, he bore a heavy load of frustration in those years in not being able to pursue his art full-time. Lishinsky wrote plays and stories during long hours of travel on his sales trips around

966-458: Is a respect for the flatness of the picture plane, where the figures loom in dignity and where animation resides in structural and textural relationships as much as in ostensible movements. In the Tilden mural, Lishinsky adopted a "grisaille" technique, presenting, within the colorful panels, foreground figures in monochromatic greens to bring together the sprawling space and lend coherence to the work as

1035-750: Is an American artist of the 20th Century, a painter and playwright, best known for seven murals completed for the federally funded agencies of the New Deal programs of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in the Russian Empire in 1905, he was raised on Manhattan's East Side and in Brooklyn. He studied at the Educational Alliance and the National Academy of Design , and with John Sloan at the Art Students League . Beginning as an assistant to Jean Charlot,

1104-449: Is an after-school program for students in late middle school. It was designed to enlarge the pool of African American and Hispanic candidates eligible for admission to the selective schools by giving them extra lessons and teaching test-taking skills. Unlike other urban school districts (such as San Francisco Unified School District ), New York does not use racial preferences (affirmative action) in public school admissions . In May 2012,

1173-604: Is assigned to schools in the NYCDOE school district except for a small section of the Bronx , which is instead assigned to the Pelham Public Schools (with tuition supported by the city government). Beginning in 2003, New York City public schools citywide implemented a mathematics "core curriculum" based on New York State standards for grades K-Up Higher. To graduate high school, students must earn at least six credits in mathematics. All NYC public school students are taught through

1242-410: Is based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior . Classrooms follow a "self-contained" model consisting of six students, a special education teacher, speech teacher, and paraprofessional. A number of New York City public school students have gone on to become celebrities, and leaders in various industries including music, fashion, business, sports, and entertainment. Some of

1311-468: Is one of ten major U.S. cities in which the educational system is under the control of the mayor rather than an elected school board. More recently, Mayor Bill de Blasio has received major criticism over his decision to accept proposals by charter schools to co-locate with public schools, specifically Seth Low IS and Cavallaro IS in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn . Many people expressed shock and disappointment at

1380-438: Is paid for the 70 thousand students attending charter schools . "In school year 2012–2013, 241,900 students attended nonpublic schools, 19 percent of the city K-12 total." The $ 1.04B for 70,000 students in charter schools calculates as $ 14,285; the $ 71 million for the 241,900 not in public school is less than $ 400 per student. $ 4.6 billion of the budget pays for pensions and interest on Capital Plan debt. Although

1449-713: Is run by the Panel for Educational Policy and the New York City Schools Chancellor . The current chancellor is Melissa Aviles-Ramos . In the Maclay Act in 1842, the New York State legislature established the New York City Board of Education. It gave the city an elective Board of Education empowered to build and supervise schools and distribute the education fund. It provided that none of the money should go to

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1518-501: Is widely known in Brooklyn to have helped produce four rap legends. In the 1990s, Jay-Z , Busta Rhymes , DMX , and The Notorious B.I.G. all attended the same school. Similarly, at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx , famed novelist James Baldwin and photographer Richard Avedon both contributed to their school's literary magazine, The Magpie, in the 1930s. Many school buildings are architecturally noteworthy, in part due to

1587-559: The Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City , formerly housed Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities (M440), a comprehensive school which graduated its last class in the 2011-2012 school year. The building – which is actually two buildings, one on 18th Street and the other on 19th Street, connected in the middle – was constructed in 1930 as Textile High School ,

1656-579: The New York Times reported that New York City had the fifth most segregated large city school system, after Chicago and Dallas . Hispanic students are concentrated in Washington Heights and Corona and the greatest segregation existed in black neighborhoods. It further noted that black isolation in schools has persisted even as residential segregation has declined. In 2016 , the Times said that 11% of

1725-601: The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee , which investigated Communist influence in schools, accused two-thirds of New York City teachers of being " card-carrying Communists ." Irving Adler , Mathematics Department chair at Straubenmuller and executive member of the Teachers Union , was subpoenaed by the subcommittee but refused to cooperate, invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment . He

1794-528: The Work Projects Administration 's Federal Arts Project decorated the schools with murals , some created by artist Jacques Van Aalten ; but muralist Jean Charlot was also called in to oversee the work already in progress of art students – including Abraham Lishinsky – titled The Art Contribution to Civilization of All Nations and Countries . Lishinsky painted a central niche, which he named Head, Crowned with Laurels ; this latter

1863-590: The government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (more commonly known as New York City Public Schools ) is the largest school system in the United States (and among the largest in the world), with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,800 separate schools. The department covers all five boroughs of New York City, and has an annual budget of around $ 38 billion. The department

1932-578: The 2002 reform legislation made no specific reference to a "Department of Education", the bylaws subsequently adopted by the New York City Board of Education provided that the board "shall be known as the Panel for Educational Policy", which together with the Chancellor and other school employees was designated as the "Department of Education of the City of New York". The Panel for Educational Policy has

2001-564: The 2022-2023 school year, there were approximately 219,000 students with disabilities (20.9% of the student body) being educated in the NYC school system. The most prevalent disability classifications are learning disabilities (40%) and speech or language impairments (32%). Boys outnumber girls with IEPs by two to one. Introduced in 2003 as a partnership between NYCDOE and the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development ,

2070-618: The Bronx, Queens, one for most of Brooklyn, and one, BASIS, for the rest of Brooklyn and all of Staten Island. In addition, there were several special districts for alternative schools and schools serving severely disabled students. On February 3, 1964, in protest over deplorable school conditions and segregation , over 450,000 students boycotted New York City public schools . In 1969, on the heels of additional protests, strikes, and demands for community control, New York City Mayor John Lindsay relinquished mayoral control of schools , and organized

2139-634: The City of New York", the bylaws subsequently adopted by the Board provided that the 13-member body "shall be known as the Panel for Educational Policy", which together with the Chancellor and other school employees was designated as the "Department of Education of the City of New York". The education headquarters were moved from 110 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn to the Tweed Courthouse building adjacent to New York City Hall in Manhattan . In 2003,

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2208-496: The Common Core curriculum. To receive a Regents diploma , students must score at least 65 on a Regents math exam. The city has started several initiatives to reduce childhood obesity among students, including promoting exercise and improving nutrition in school cafeterias. During Mayor Bloomberg's first term, white bread was entirely replaced with whole wheat bread , hot dog buns , and hamburger buns in cafeterias. In 2006,

2277-407: The DOE banned bake sales, though some schools continued to have them. The DOE cited the high sugar content of baked sale goods and that 40% of city students are obese. However, vending machines in the schools operated by Frito Lay and Snapple continued to sell high processed empty calorie foods such as Doritos and juices. As part of the DOE's program to create healthy diets among students, Frito Lay

2346-591: The DOE instituted a number of innovative programs for teacher recruitment, including the New York City Teaching Fellows , the TOP Scholars Program, and initiatives to bring foreign teachers (primarily from Eastern Europe) to teach in the city's schools. Housing subsidies are in place for experienced teachers who relocate to the city to teach. In the course of school reorganizations, some veteran teachers have lost their positions. They then enter

2415-437: The DOE to facilitate projects that specifically focus on improving the accessibility of school buildings. Every school building is given an accessibility designation of either, No Accessibility , Partially Accessible or Fully Accessible , which is listed on the school's profile. In addition, schools are given an accessibility rating from a scale of 1–10. All buildings built on or after 1992 are fully accessible and are given

2484-586: The Franco-Mexican muralist, Lishinsky from 1934 to 1943 created seven murals for the PWAP / WPA federal arts programs of the 1930s and 1940s. His earliest mural was painted in collaboration with his mentor Charlot in the lobby of the Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan. The mural survives. His largest existing work is a 54-panel, 2,400-square-foot (220 m ) mural that wraps around

2553-556: The NYCDOE easily placed first in the list, by spending $ 25,199. Only the Boston Public Schools came close to this figure. $ 3 billion (15.6%) of the budget goes for the 19 percent of those who attend Non City schools. This includes $ 1.09 billion to pre-school special education services and $ 725.3 million for School-Age non DOE contract special education. Another $ 71 million goes to non-public schools such as yeshivas and parochial schools and $ 1.04 billion

2622-592: The Nest program is designed to meet the needs of autistic students who have average to above average intelligence, age-level spoken language, memory and attention. Classrooms are located in community Districts 1-32 and follow an Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) model, with two teachers: one special education teacher and one general education teacher. Class sizes are smaller than typical NYC ICT classrooms. Approximately 1,700 autistic students are educated in Nest classrooms across New York City's five boroughs. Introduced in 2011 as

2691-657: The Wakefield Station post office in the Bronx, New York, painted under the authority of the United States Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1943. The fate of the World's Fair mural, two 70-by-10-foot (21.3 m × 3.0 m) panels, and a 30-by-10-foot (9.1 m × 3.0 m) panel, is unknown. The Wakefield mural was at least until recent years still in place, but in deteriorating condition. Lishinsky also painted

2760-485: The auditorium at the former Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, titled "Major Influences in Civilization." The mural is restored and in excellent condition. Lishinsky, who was the supervising artist on all the murals he painted, invited his colleague and longtime friend Irving A. Block to work with him to create the Tilden mural. Among the assistants hired to work on the mural was the artist Abram "Al" Lerner , who

2829-513: The authority to approve school closings. A majority of its membership is appointed by the Mayor. There are 32 councils, with 11 members on each, two appointed by Borough Presidents and nine selected by PTA leaders who are advised by parents who live in the council districts, the local parents acting through an election process conducted online and overseen by the Department of Education. The 2009 election cost $ 650,000 to conduct and another election

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2898-551: The building. The Board operated radio station WNYE beginning in 1938, from studios located within the campus of Brooklyn Technical High School . Television station WNYE-TV went on the air in 1967, with its studios adjacent to George Westinghouse High School in Downtown Brooklyn . The broadcast licenses of both stations were transferred to the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications in 2004. New York

2967-516: The city school system into the Board of Education (made up of seven members appointed by borough presidents and the mayor) and 32 community school boards (whose members were elected). Elementary and middle schools were controlled by the community boards while high schools were controlled by the Board of Education. In 2002, the city's school system was reorganized by chapter 91 of the Laws of 2002 . Control of

3036-419: The city set out to eliminate whole milk from cafeteria lunch menus and took the further step of banning low-fat flavored milks , allowing only skim milk (white and chocolate ). The New York City school system purchases more milk than any other in the United States. Although the dairy industry aggressively lobbied against the new plan they ultimately failed to prevent its implementation. In October 2009,

3105-481: The city's public school system live in households where a language other than English is spoken; one-third of all New Yorkers were born in another country. The city's Department of Education translates report cards, registration forms, system-wide alerts, and documents on health and policy initiatives for parents into Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean , Hindi , Telugu , Bengali , Urdu , Persian , Arabic, and Haitian Creole . In October 2018,

3174-574: The comprehensive high school. In the 2012-2013 school year, there were six schools in the facility: With the exception of Quest to Learn (Q2L), all of the schools are high schools. Q2L, which moved into the building just before the 2010-2011 school year, started with three grades (6-9) and added a grade each year until it was a full middle and high school in September 2015. The original upper floors were well-appointed, with marble -lined hallways, stained glass windows, and wood-paneled offices. In 1934–35,

3243-603: The country. His play "The Collaboration" won a CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service Program) award in 1981 from the New York State Council on the Arts. In the early 1950s, Lishinsky turned to an abstract style, studying with the artist Wallace K. Harrison in New York. With a reserve of savings, he left the business world and took his family to Majorca, Spain, where he spent two years from 1955 to 1957, painting full-time. His work

3312-516: The decision, claiming that co-location leads to congestion of school streets, overcrowded classrooms, strained resources, and a negative impact on children's education. On October 4th 2013, 14 year old autistic student Avonte Oquendo walked out of his District 75 school, Riverview School in Long Island City , and went missing. His remains were located three months later in the East River , however

3381-456: The dissolution of the regions effective June 2007, and schools became organized into one of several School Support Organizations . Since 2009, the NYS Assembly has passed incremental laws keeping NYC Mayoral control over the DOE and the current law is set to expire with the end of Mayor DeBlasio's term in 2022. NYCDOE is the school district of all five boroughs. As of 1997 all of the city

3450-492: The districts were grouped into ten regions , each encompassing several elementary and middle school districts, and part of a high school district. In 2005, several schools joined the Autonomous Zone (later Empowerment Zone ) and were allowed to use part of their budgets to directly purchase support services. These schools were released from their regions. In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced

3519-636: The efforts of C. B. J. Snyder . Since 1988 construction has been in the hands of the New York City School Construction Authority . Most schools were built prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and are not accessible or only partially accessible to people with physical disabilities . The Office of Accessibility Planning, which is located within the Office of Space Management, collaborates with other offices within

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3588-464: The exact cause of death could not be determined. Video footage from inside the school showed him running through the halls of the school and past a security guard before exiting through a door that had been left open. In 2016 the City of New York agreed to pay $ 2.7 million settlement to the family of Avonte Oquendo in response to a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the Department of Education. On September 15th 2014, 15 year old Nashaly Perez,

3657-818: The most notable New York City public school alumni include Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Alicia Keys , Stanley Kubrick , Al Pacino , Colin Powell , Lloyd Blankfein , Neil deGrasse Tyson (K – 12), and Jay-Z . Art focused schools, including High School of Art and Design and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School have tended to produce notable artists, actors, and fashion over the past century, while STEM focused schools, including Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science boast Nobel Prize winners and scientists among their notable alumni. Many now famous alumni also interacted with one another while attending public school together. One particular vocational high school, George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School ,

3726-474: The mothers of three District 75 students on Staten Island brought a class action lawsuit against NYCDOE claiming their children were unnecessarily forced into a segregated learning environment, isolated away from their peers, and forced into excessively long commutes. In 2023 the district was subject to disproportionately high funding cuts of $ 97 million dollars, affecting the district's ability to provide school supplies and extracurricular activities. As of

3795-465: The penitentiary at Rikers Island . Although Lishinsky's works for the federal art programs were representational, in the style known as Social Realist, he made many friends among the American adopters of abstract style, including Ilya Bolotowsky and Louis Schanker , and there is a strikingly abstract quality to his mural designs. The figures are monumental, often presented in dreamlike suspension. There

3864-555: The principles of Applied Behavior Analysis . Classrooms are located in community Districts 1-32 and follow a "self-contained" model consisting of eight students, one special education teacher and one classroom paraprofessional . Introduced in 2019, AIMS is a special education program in select District 75 schools that is designed to meet the needs of autistic students with moderate to severe delays in academic skills and have below average working memory, verbal and non-verbal reasoning abilities, speech and language and attention. Instruction

3933-416: The school system was given to the mayor, who began reorganization and reform efforts. The powers of the community school boards were diminished and the Board of Education was renamed the Panel for Educational Policy, a twelve-member body of which seven members are appointed by the mayor and five by Borough Presidents . Although that legislation itself made no specific reference to a "Department of Education of

4002-754: The schools in the city system had the majority of non-Hispanic white students, who made up 15% of the system's total student body. In May 2017, the Times published another report in collaboration with Measure of America that examined the effects of segregation. According to the report, black and Hispanic students were more likely to attend nonselective schools with majority-black and Hispanic demographics and lower graduation rates, while white and Asian students were more likely to attend selective or zoned schools with higher graduation rates. The Times also stated that zoned schools with majority white or Asian demographics tended to have higher graduation rates than zoned schools with majority black or Hispanic demographics. While

4071-476: The schools which taught religion. The fast-growing Irish Catholic community objected, but after decades of trying they did not get government funding. By 1870 19 percent of school-age children attended Catholic schools. Beginning in the late 1960s, schools were grouped into districts . Elementary schools and middle schools were grouped into 32 community school districts, and high schools were grouped into five geographically larger districts. One each for Manhattan,

4140-413: The student population was 42% Hispanic and Latino , 26% African American, 15% Non-Hispanic White , and 16% Asian American. Another 3% were of multiple race categories. Of the students, 20% were disabled, 13% were English language learners, and 73% met the department's definition of poverty. The specialized high schools tend to be disproportionately Asian . New York's Specialized High School Institute

4209-670: The universal high school choice policy in New York City sought to weaken the link between the conditions in students neighborhoods and their educational outcomes, a 2016 report by Measure of America found that on-time graduation rates still vary immensely by where students lived. In 1991 NYCDOE established an entirely segregated school district, District 75, to educate children with complex and significant needs including Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, Multiple disabilities and sensory impairments. District 75 educates approximately 24,000 children across New York City's five boroughs. In 2021,

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4278-615: Was exhibited upon his return at the Terrain Gallery and in 1958 and 1959, at the Washington Irving Gallery in New York. Compelled to make a living, he returned to the business world, painting on nights and weekends in a studio in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and later, in a home studio in Brooklyn. In 1971, Lishinsky retired from the business world. At last a full-time painter after years of intermittent work, he found in

4347-755: Was fired. Adler later admitted being a member of the Communist Party USA . In the wake of disciplinary problems so bad that teachers picketed the school, it was shut down in June 1983, and reopened in September 1983 as the High School for the Humanities with a revamped curriculum focusing on English and the humanities . It was later renamed the Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities after civil rights activist Bayard Rustin . In January 2009, following publicized difficulties, including safety issues,

4416-534: Was held in 2011. According to Beth Fertig, Community Education Councils are "supposed to provide an avenue for parent engagement." According to Tim Kremer, head of the New York State School Boards Association , "although education councils don't have a lot of power they can play a vital role in vetting budgets and giving feedback on instructional policies." Councils have some veto power. The councils were created in 2002 and their authority

4485-514: Was increased "a little" in 2009, but, according to Fertig, "many parents still claim the councils don't matter because decisions are ultimately controlled by the mayor." According to Soni Sangha, the councils are mainly obscure and unknown to many parents, their forums are not well-attended, and they meet with the citywide schools chancellor . In October 2018, 1,126,501 students attended New York City public schools, excluding 119,551 students enrolled in charter schools . About 40% of students in

4554-462: Was later found inside an apartment building three blocks away. On October 4th 2023, an autistic 15 year old student at Gotham Collaborative High School in the Bronx, bypassed his paraprofessional and exited the school building. Security cameras nearby the school revealed he boarded the BX5 bus instead of his regular school bus. He was later found. Abraham Lishinsky Abraham Lishinsky (1905–1982)

4623-667: Was later founding director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden . Lishinsky and Block later collaborated on two other works: A large representational mural on the history of medicine for the Medicine and Public Health pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair , sponsored by the American Medical Association , and "Washington and the Battle of the Bronx," a 15-by-5-foot (4.6 m × 1.5 m) historical mural at

4692-400: Was obligated to put Reduced Fat Doritos in machines. The DOE considers Reduced Fat Doritos a healthy snack based on its June 2009 request for healthy snack vending machine proposals. However, the school lunch menu still contained numerous highly processed foods and high sugar content foods including chicken nuggets, French fries, French toast and syrup. The New York State Assembly published

4761-582: Was overpainted after the completion of the mural, and Charlot listed the mural as "destroyed" in catalogs of his work. It was restored by the Adopt-A-Mural Program, with mural restoration completed in 1995. It is now an interior architectural landmark. In 1999 a theatrical lighting system and rigging renovation for the school auditorium was completed with the help of PENCIL, Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning. The building also features

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