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Save Sheesphead Bay High School Rally

By GerritsenBeach.net, on November 21st, 2010%

Hundreds of students, and staff rallied Friday to save Sheepshead Bay High School from closing. The school is in danger of being “closed” by the Department of Education due to its “persistently lowest achieving graduation rate”. The atmosphere was excited and hopeful as teachers, para professionals, parents, and students, walked the perimiter of the school chanting ” Save Sheesphead Bay”.

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“I am so proud” said one 20+ year veteran worker “I’ve been here through the good and the bad and this [rally] was definitely on of the good.” ”Closing a school with this much fight and the spirit that I see here today is about as mindless as appointing a chancellor with no education experience” said Councilman Lew Fidler. The councilman has recently introduced legislation to deny Cathie Black.

Neighboring John Dewey High School who has been rallying at 7:15am every friday showed up to support their Avenue X neighbors. They both share an Avenue X address with Dewey at 50 Avenue X and Sheepshead located at 3000 Avenue X.

There has been no decisions made yet by the DOE, any decision made will be for the 2011 school year.

Sheesphead Bay High School to Hold Rally to Try and Stay Open

By GerritsenBeach.net, on November 9th, 2010%

Next Friday – November 19 - at 3:00 Sheesphead Bay High School is having a rally to try and keep the school open.

We know the school year really just started but come NEXT September the city is going to try to close 19 schools , and try to phase out 16 more, continuing its strategy of closing some of the city’s largest high schools and replacing them with small schools or charter schools.

Sheepshead Bay is on the list of “persistently lowest achieving” schools and it will most likely be phased out and replaced with the smaller schools but it could also go though something called transformation.

Since Sheepshead Bay High School has been on the city list of “persistently lowest achieving” schools they are on the list to be phased out. The main problem being that their graduation rate has been consistently below 60% (2007: 52%, 2008: 55%, 2009: 57.4%)

Currently, the DOE is meeting with Sheepshead leadership to discuss what those statistics don’t reflect.

These “transformations schools” can hire two new kinds of teachers — master teachers and turnaround teachers — who will earn up to 30 percent more than their regular salaries for training teachers in addition to their regular duties. Those premiums, and other school improvements, will be financed by $2 million a year in federal stimulus money over the next three years.

Principals at most transformation schools will be removed, according to federal rules that must be followed in order to receive the money, even though teachers will not be dismissed.

Sheepshead May Be Saved by UFT

By GerritsenBeach.net, on February 18th, 2010%

In protest of the DOE planning on closing our area schools the United Federation of Teachersâ€™ (UFT)has filed a lawsuit to stop the closure of 19 city public schools including Sheepshead Bay HS, Dewey, FDR, and Grady.

Sheepshead Bay High School Going to Close

By GerritsenBeach.net, on January 31st, 2010%

Sheepshead Bay High School, our High School, is going to close at the end of the year.

The DOE is citing graduation rates for special education and low-income students. More than likely the DOE is going to replace Sheepshead with smaller and/or charter schools.

3 other Brooklyn schools are going to close as well: