FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com OCTOBER 2, 2014 • THE QUEENS COURIER 11 JOIN NEW YORK’S STRONGEST! Here’s your chance to help the Big Apple shine. • Great pay and benefits • Great advancement opportunities Filing period for Sanitation Worker exam: Oct. 1 to Oct. 31, 2014 www.nyc.gov/examsforjobs sanitation Portion of sales in October will be donated to a local charity. Flushing, Bayside schools bag Blue Ribbon BY QUEENS COURIER STAFF [email protected] @QueensCourier The National Blue Ribbon Schools program, run by the U.S. Department of Education, has awarded the coveted Blue Ribbon school status to two schools in Queens - PS 205 Alexander Graham Bell School in Bayside and Queens College School for Math, Science and Technology in Flushing. Both of them are winners among public schools in the Exemplary High Performing Schools category. Only 337 schools across the country were awarded a Blue Ribbon this year. This status is designated “based on the school’s overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups,” according to the Department of Education’s offi cial website. Both the Queens schools won because of their academic excellence. The winning schools are given a plaque and fl ag as recognition of their National Blue Ribbon School status. The recognition ceremony honoring 287 public schools and 50 private schools will take place on Nov. 10 and 11 in Washington D.C. Queens Museum announces new executive director BY LIAM LA GUERRE [email protected] @liamlaguerre Experienced art professional Laura Raicovich was named the new president and executive director of the Queens Museum on Oct. 2. Raicovich has been the director of global initiatives at Creative Time, an arts advocate organization, since 2012. She was selected by the Queens Museum board of trustees after a lengthy national search and will start on Jan. 1. “Laura has spent the past two decades strengthening arts institutions, realizing the visions of artists and engaging diverse constituencies, and we are excited that she will be leading the Queens Museum,” said board chair Peter Meyer. “Our shared philosophy on the future of the museum, belief in the power of the arts to exact positive change, and dedication to making the arts relevant to all audiences made her the right person to move the museum forward.” Raicovich has a bachelor’s degree in both art and political science from Swarthmore College and a master of arts in liberal studies from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She also worked at the Dia Art Foundation, advancing to deputy director during her tenure, and as the senior publicist of the Guggenheim Museum. Raicovich was also a curator of public art for the Parks Department. Former Queens Museum head director Tom Finkelpearl was courted away by Mayor Bill de Blasio in May to be the city’s commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, months after he oversaw the completion of a $68 million makeover of the museum, which reopened in October 2014. Photo courtesy Timothy Greenfi eld-Sanders Laura Raicovich has been selected to replace Tom Finklepearl as the president and executive director of the Queens Museum. Raicovich said her goal is to propel the museum into the future as an international destination. “Looking forward, pairing engagement and innovation with exceptional artistic production will allow the Queens Museum to occupy a unique place in the pantheon of cultural offerings in New York City, to become an international model, and to serve all of Queens as a world-class art museum,” she said.
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