Last Update: 8/18/05

Note - SmallTown Brooklyn is in Division 8

NYC Department Of EducationWebsite
Contacting Division 8 - Dept Education Hotline

Neighborhood Public School Information

How Redistricting 2003 is shaping up
More Division 8 Information
Public Schools by Neighborhood
Parental Resources
Immunization Requirements

Private School Education By Neighborhood

SmallTown Brooklyn's School Listings:
Local pre-Schools; K 1-6; Middle & High School

Division 8 PTA Websites
Special Education - Children
Music Schools

Education Resources/public tutoring
Other Schools/ Classes - Children
Other Schools/ Classes - Adults

PreSchools
Private Tutoring - Children
Home Education

Leave My Child Alone

Day Care Information
Camps/ Summer Camps
After School Programs

Parent School Workshops
Transportation/ Public School Eligibility

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Parent Hotline
Department of Education
Open 24 hours a Day - 7 Days a Week
718 482 3777

It has been designed for emergency information but they seem knowledgeable about lots of things or at least where you can get the
most specific help.Also... If you have a problem with your child's metro card call: 718-784-3313 and they will arrange to have a metro sent to your school with your child's name on it!

More Details about Division 8
Neighborhood Public School Information

SmallTownBrooklyn will put up and maintain you school's PTA website as a public service. Contact us by e-mail at: ptasite@smalltownbrooklyn.com

Division 8

National PTA
The largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations to children.
www.pta.org

Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc.
116 E. 16th St., 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 677-4650
FAX: (212) 254-4070
www.resourcesnyc.org
info@resourcesnyc.org

An independent, not-for-profit organization that provides information and referral, case management and support, individual and systemic advocacy, parent and professional training, library and information services to New York City parents and caregivers of children with disabilities and special needs and to the professionals who work with them.

InsideSchools.org
151 West 30th Street, 5th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-9779
fax: (212) 947-9790
e-mail: insideschools@advocatesforchildren.org
website: www.insideschools.org

We are a group of committed public school parents, children's advocates, journalists and teachers dedicated to improving public education in New York City. We visit schools, speak with parents and teachers, and comb the media to present an independent and authoritative view of New York City schools. We provide a forum for parents, teachers and administrators to share what they know best about the city's schools. By helping parents navigate the bureaucracy, and by encouraging them to lobby for improvements in their neighborhood schools, we seek to increase support for public education and to make the public school system more accessible to parents, and more accountable to students.

Homework NYC
A wealth of kid-friendly on-line resources: quick links to Ask-a-Librarian, Dial-a-Teacher, textbooks and curriculae. Produced by The New York Public Library with the assistance of the Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Library. HomeowrkNYC.org gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the teachers, administrators and school librarians at the New York City Department of Education, as well as a major grant from The Wallace Foundation.
www.HomeworkNYC.org

Leave My Child Alone!
A Family Privacy Campaign to Protect Our High School Students From Unwanted Military Recruiting

Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over private student information to military recruiters. The purpose of this invasion of family privacy is to allow minor students to be recruited at home by telephone calls, mail and personal visits. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds.

The only way to keep your children’s contact information from military recruiters, is to submit an "opt-out" letter in writing to your school district’s superintendent.  This provision known as section 9528 was inserted with almost no debate into the No Child Left Behind Act by Rep. David Vitter of Louisiana, who learned from the Pentagon that many public schools had strict privacy policies protecting student information from being released to any outside parties, thus preventing aggressive military recruiting.
www.LeaveMyChildAlone.org

Families First

The Families First Drop In Center at 250 Baltic Street (just off Court) offers its fall 2004 schedule of parent workshops, some of which include hosts from District 8. See their calendar section at: www.familiesfirstbrooklyn.org

Transportation for NYC Public School kids
Transportation guidelines, eligibility for free or subsidized transportation and other information
www.opt-osfns.org/opt/default.asp

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