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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...District Four, long one of the worst-performing school districts in New York City, has a history of success with alternative programs. Central Park East, a progressive teacher-run junior high and high school founded in 1974, has succeeded in substantially improving school performance. Central Park East Elementary, which opened a few years later, has done the same at the elementary level...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: All-Girls' School: The Right Thing to Do | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...proposed school, located on three floors of a leased building on 106th Street near Park Avenue, has hired a director and three teachers and has already accepted more than half of this fall's students. Hopefully, the Chancellor will come to his senses and allow the school--which organizers hope to expand to 8th and 9th graders in 1997 and perhaps 10th through 12 graders in 1998--to respond to the educational needs it was designed to meet...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: All-Girls' School: The Right Thing to Do | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

With the community on heightened alert after Saturday's bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, local authorities were called in to investigate two suspicious bags over the weekend, both of which turned out to be harmless...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Police Investigate Bomb Scares | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

State and local authorities cleared the northern half of John F. Kennedy Park Sunday to examine an unattended knapsack...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Police Investigate Bomb Scares | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...explosion had died away, Olympic organizers were defying the bombers and proclaiming the games would go on. Two days after the attack, Atlantans and visitors to the games are packing Olympic venues and strolling through the streets. The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is enhancing security in Centennial Park, which is set to reopen on Tuesday. Random bag searches are part of the upgraded security precautions. As 17 of the people injured in the bomb attack remained in the hospital, the FBI searched busily for the bombers. Coping with a deluge of information Terence Nelan

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Business | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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