Nationally, applications for financial aid are down this year.
Students have overcome many obstacles the past year. Celebrate your graduate on Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch.
See how college aid applications changed for Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO area high schools.
The percentage of residents holding four-year or higher degrees has been increasing in the U.S. Here's how it’s changed in Brooklyn.
A former Brooklyn Friends student is suing the school she says "catastrophically failed" to stop a janitor from abusing her.
An investigation into sexual misconduct named 19 former staff members at prestigious private school Saint Ann's, according to reports.
Students at Brooklyn Prospect Downtown Elementary sent nearly 400 backpacks filled with supplies to a school destroyed by the hurricane.
Students from schools around the borough converged at Brooklyn Borough Hall to join a nationwide call for stricter gun controls.
The charter school leased several floors of 77 Sands St., which was sold off by the Jevoah's Witnesses in 2013, the New York Post reported.
The parents of a student at P.S. 8 in Brooklyn said teachers are trying to push out their son because he has down syndrome.
The plan was to migrate kids from a mostly white school in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights to a nearby school that's mostly black and low-income.
The grants can be applied to a wide variety of educational programs, and will be awarded by the Walentas Family Foundation.