Editors Note: Perhaps the proudest moment I’ve had as the editor of New York Family was the time I had the honor of presenting a Blackboard Award to Principal Brian O’Connell of Scholars Academy, an outstanding public school (grades 6-12) in the Rockaways. The previous year the school was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, with over 60 percent of their students rendered homeless or dislocated—and yet, by June of that year they somehow managed to graduate their entire senior class! But here’s the thing I most want to impress: as emotional as that particular award was, every time we give out a Blackboard Award to a deserving school or educator, I’m inordinately proud and humbled to be among these local heroes—our teachers and principals who give so much to our children. So please, please, please, with the Nov. 10 deadline looming, take a moment right now to tell us about a wonderful school (or principal) in your child’s life. ( (All schools in NYC -- public, private, charter, and parochial; and nursery through high school, are eligible.) Click here to nominate a school or principal: Blackboardawards Thank you!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:58:47 +0000
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