A scrappy Coney Island elementary school is creating opportunity for disadvantaged students, with innovative academic programs that have kids fired up about science, technology, engineering and math, the NY Daily News reports. Nine out of 10 students at Public School 188 live below the poverty line, and a quarter have special needs, but the dedicated educators there have rolled out innovative programs in robotics, forensics and rocketry that give kids a place to thrive…
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