An Arabic Public School

Court Rejects Arabic School Principal's Claim
By Associated Press | March 21, 2008
The former principal of an Arabic-themed public school cannot immediately force New York City to give her another shot at getting her job back, a federal appeals court said yesterday. But Debbie Almontaser may still pursue the matter at a trial, the...

Principal of Arabic School Is Announced
By SARAH PORTLOCK | January 9, 2008
An Arabic-speaking teacher and facilitator with the city's Department of Education who served in the Peace Corps in Yemen, Holly Reichert, will be the next principal of the city's first ever Arabic-themed school, the Khalil Gibran International...

Almontaser's Opportunity
Editorial of The New York Sun | October 18, 2007
Word has come this week that the founding principal of the city's Arabic-language school is looking to get her job back, and she's prepared to sue the city of New York to get it. Dhabah Almontaser, who resigned the Arab language and culture school in...

Ex-Arabic School Head Readies Lawsuit Against City
By ELIZABETH GREEN | October 17, 2007
The founding principal of the city's Arabic-language school is fighting to get her job back, and she will take the city to court to get it. Debbie Almontaser said yesterday that she is preparing a lawsuit against the Department of Education, and...

Group Targets Middle Eastern Textbooks
By Special to the Sun | September 4, 2007
As schools citywide open their doors today, a group critical of a new Arabic-language public school is stepping up its opposition efforts, broadening its campaign to target national school curricula. The group, a coalition of community members,...

Education Department Distances Itself From Khalil Gibran Rally
By ELIZABETH GREEN | August 20, 2007
The city's Department of Education is distancing itself from a rally in support of one of its own schools, the Arabic-language Khalil Gibran International Academy set to open in Brooklyn in two weeks. Khalil Gibran's founding principal, Dhaba...

New Approach Needed for Arab School
By DANIEL PIPES | August 15, 2007
When Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser resigned as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy on August 10, her action culminated a remarkable grassroots campaign in which concerned citizens successfully criticized the New York City establishment....

Where Is The ACLU?
By ALICIA COLON | August 15, 2007
Now that Dhabah aka Debbie Almontaser has resigned as the principal-designate of the Khalil Gibran International Academy and has been replaced by a Jewish woman, Danielle Salzberg, some assume the opposition to the school itself is over. That...

Jewish Woman Taking Over at Arabic-Language School
By ELIZABETH GREEN | August 14, 2007
New York City's education department is turning to a Jewish woman who belongs to an Upper West Side synagogue to lead an Arabic-language public school that critics have portrayed as a terrorist-friendly "madrassa" in the making. Khalil Gibran...

Following Principal's Resignation, Calls Increase to Shut School
By ELIZABETH GREEN | August 10, 2007
Activists and a lawmaker are calling on the Department of Education to shut down the city's first Arabic-language school immediately after the school's principal resigned Friday morning following comments that seemed to support the violent Palestinian...

Arab School Principal Says She Regrets Intifada Remarks
By ELIZABETH GREEN | August 7, 2007
The principal of an Arabic-language public school due to open next month is under fire for taking what several Jewish groups are condemning as a soft stance on the violent Palestinian Arab uprising known as the intifada. The principal, Debbie...

The Real Arab School Fear
By DANIEL PIPES | May 22, 2007
A question mark hangs over the opening of New York City's planned Arabic-language school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy. That the topic remains open is surprising. Other than objections from a few of us — The New York Sun's editorialists,...

Klein Relieves Some Critics' Concerns About Arab School
By ELIZABETH WEISS GREEN | May 16, 2007
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday indicated that the Department of Education would monitor funding and curriculum at the Arabic language and culture middle school set to open this September near downtown Brooklyn. The Khalil Gibran Academy,...

Parents Voice Distrust Of Arab School Promises
By MATTHEW CHAYES | May 15, 2007
Parents of children who attend two Boerum Hill schools, which the city has proposed share space with a new Arabic culture public school, told officials last night that they don't trust the Department of Education to keep its promises to improve the...

Arab School To Face Scrutiny At Emergency Parent Meeting
By SARAH GARLAND | May 14, 2007
The Arabic theme of a new public school may be a point of contention at an emergency parent meeting called tonight at the Brooklyn high school slated to house the new school. The Khalil Gibran International Academy, which is named after a Lebanese...

Brooklyn Arabic School
Editorial of The New York Sun | May 8, 2007
Backers of the proposed Khalil Gibran International Academy are insisting that their plan for a middle school that would teach Arabic is still alive, even though the department of education has decided against situating the school at PS 282 in Park...

Madrassa Plan Is Monstrosity
By ALICIA COLON | May 1, 2007
When I met him a while ago in The New York Sun's offices, Chancellor Joel Klein seemed to be in command of his senses. And Mayor Bloomberg did not become a successful billionaire without having some smarts. So whose insane idea was it to have an...

Muslim Panel: Many Distrust Legal System
By GABRIELLE BIRKNER | April 26, 2007
Many New York Muslims are deeply distrustful of the American legal system, three local Muslim leaders said at a panel discussion yesterday in Brooklyn. During the hour-long event, sponsored jointly by the Kings County Courts Community Outreach...

A Madrassa Grows In Brooklyn
By DANIEL PIPES | April 24, 2007
Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a "multicultural...

Where Radical Politics And Education Intersect
By ANDREW WOLF | April 17, 2007
It came as no surprise to Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute that a class of New York City public high school pupils took a spring break jaunt to communist Cuba. "Sure, they do it every year," Mr. Stern told me. He sees this as part of something...

Out of Many, One
By ANDREW WOLF | March 16, 2007
When the founding fathers chose the Latin phrase E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one — as the national motto, an event that took place concurrent with the 13 colonies declaring their independence, the intent was to dramatize the reality that these 13...

‘Screaming and Crying' Greet Arab School Plan
By SARAH GARLAND | March 14, 2007
Park Slope parents are up in arms over a Department of Education proposal to insert a new small school focusing on Arabic language and culture inside the same building as their children's elementary school. Department officials faced what is becoming...

New Brooklyn School To Offer Middle East Studies
By SARAH GARLAND | March 7, 2007
A new public secondary school that is to include Middle Eastern studies in its curriculum will focus on culture, not the region's political conflicts, Department of Education officials said yesterday. "The school will not be a vehicle for political...