WHERE NEW YORK CITY BEGINS Spring 2003 WWW.BROOKLYN-USA.ORG <strong>Winter</strong> 2011
<strong>Winter</strong> 2011 PARENT GUIDE Spring 2003 How do I enroll my child in a city school? Are there school buses to serve my child? What are the different high schools available to my child? Parents, get answers to questions like these and more from the first ever <strong>Brooklyn</strong> Parent Help Guide! The guide provides instant access to both websites and phone numbers at the Department of Education to help you find your way to the services you need. Whether it is enrollment information, how to transfer, how to find your zoned school, get safety or transportation services, or if you need to speak to someone about the many choices of programs available for your child—just use this guide and you can instantly find the web page or call the person you need. <strong>Marty</strong> and the <strong>Borough</strong> <strong>President</strong>’s Office created the <strong>Brooklyn</strong> Parent Help Guide! as well as <strong>Brooklyn</strong> Parent Help Guide!—which provides free classes for parents on subjects like financial literacy, special needs advocacy and reading and math help for your kids—and this office is the first in the City to bring co-location workshops to schools struggling with issues surrounding co-location. The more information parents have, the better our children do! And the better our children do, the better <strong>Brooklyn</strong>, New York City and the nation do. Enjoy using the <strong>Brooklyn</strong> Parent Help Guide! Thanks to the <strong>Borough</strong> <strong>President</strong>’s Education Policy Analyst Margaret Kelley for all her hard work compiling the guide. For a digital version of the guide, visit www.brooklyn-usa.org. For a hard copy pick up at CEC offices or at <strong>Borough</strong> Hall. WWW.BROOKLYN-USA.ORG THE FAMILY FOUNDATION WHERE NEW YORK CITY BEGINS Bay Ridge’s Vincent Eaton is your average 16-year-old: he’s a senior at Manhattan’s Xavier High School, obsessed with lacrosse, and trying to decide which college to attend. But since he was seven months old, Vincent has undergone more than 20 operations to address a rare bone disease called multiple hereditary exostoses (MHE) and he was later diagnosed with bone cancer. Like any family, Vincent’s parents, Craig and Susan Eaton, didn’t sit passively by. They established the MHE Research Foun- dation to raise awareness and funds for research that they hope will be a cure for this “orphan disease,” which is characterized by 4 Vincent Eaton, far left, with his brother Christopher, mother Susan, father Craig Eaton and sister Danielle. bone tumors, limb length discrepancies, skeletal malformations and other lifelong symptoms. Craig Eaton—a senior partner at Eaton & Torrenzano and chairman of the Kings County Republican County Committee—knew that finding a cure would require financial support. Said Eaton, “Thousands of children and young adults suffer from MHE. The fundraisers— most recently the Funtasia 2011 at the Dyker Heights Golf Course—and the medical conferences MHE has coordinated since 2000 raise awareness; and the Foundation’s efforts have spread the message throughout the United States Capital, Albany and City Hall.” The next MHE Conference is scheduled for November 2012 in Philadelphia, with more than 50 orthopedics and musculoskeletal disorder experts expected. Vincent wants to be a pediatric orthopedic surgeon so maybe one day he’ll be a speaker at an MHE conference. He is committed to finding a cure for the disease that has forever changed his life. Bravo Vincent! For further information or to donate visit www.mheresearchfoundation.org.
Change language