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Department of Education bus cuts hit special education kids hardest

Department of Education bus cuts hit special education kids hardest

BY MEREDITH KOLODNER
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Saturday, September 13th 2008, 7:26 PMDelMundo for NewsMahnoor, Mujahid, 5, sits outside her home in Queens. School bus cuts make her trip to school harder.Logan King Bascom, a 6-year-old wheelchair-bound autistic girl from Manhattan, was assigned to the wrong school bus last week, and ended up lost.Jacob Hicks, a 6-year-old speech-impaired autistic boy from the Bronx, missed his speech therapy class because his bus made so many stops he arrived 45 minutes late.And Mahnoor Mujahid, a 5-year-old Queens girl who suffers from a degenerative neuromuscular disease, was left without any school bus at all.The three are among scores of horror stories that have poured in since the Daily News first reported last week that bus cuts have hit special needs children hard."For budgetary reasons," said Maggie Moroff, director of special education for Advocates for Children, "routes have been consolidated. They are taking longer paths, and they are picking up at more than one school."Cost cuts at the Department of Education have resulted in 200 fewer special education buses, with those remaining packed to capacity and some kids shut out entirely.

Department of Education bus cuts hit special education kids hardest

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FROM: Insideschools.org -- The High School Search Begins.....

High school search process begins for 8th grade students

This weekend the high school admissions process officially commences with the citywide high school fair. Even though the school year recently begun, 8th grade students and their families should start to consider which among the 400-plus high schools in the city they will apply to for the fall of 2009.

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Fifth Annual Children’s Sports & Fitness Expo

5th Annual Sports Expo

Fifth Annual Children’s Sports & Fitness Expo at the Harlem PAL Armory Center on Saturday, September 27^th. This year Nike is providing 2,000 sneakers to be distributed at the Expo. The first 1500 children to pre-register online at www.bodysculpt.org are eligible to receive these sneakers. Each child must complete 3 sports clinics and a health screening before they pick up their sneakers.

If you have any questions please contact Vince Ferguson of Body Sculpt at 718-346-5852.

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