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	Harvey Milk High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harvey Milk High School is a high school for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) students located in the East Village of New York City, and named after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California, who was assassinated in 1978.
		The school was founded in 1985 as a small, a two-room program with just over a dozen students by HMI in collaboration with the New York City Department of Education's Career Education Center.
		Harvey Milk was created as an alternative education program for youth who find it difficult or impossible to attend their home schools due to threats, violence, or harassment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvey_Milk_School (577 words)

	Harvey Milk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of Lithuanian ancestry, Harvey Milk was not born Glimpy Milch, as it is widely reported.
		Harvey Milk is widely regarded as a martyr for the gay community and the gay rights movement.
		In 1995 the opera Harvey Milk by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie was premiered, and in 1996 it was recorded on CD under Donald Runnicles with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvey_Milk (765 words)

	Washington Square News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Harvey Milk is not the only school in that is geared toward a specific group of students.
		An institution like Harvey Milk is more than just a school, it's a place where students are free to explore their identity without having to deal with the social burdens of shame and ostracism.
		Harvey Milk was allocated $3.2 million dollars out of a $43 billion city education budget for expansion in 2002 by former schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy.
	www.nyunews.com /printcontent.html?fid=6014 (1253 words)

	The Harvey Milk School (Gotham Gazette. August, 2003)
		Schools that are all-fl, all-female, or all-gay/lesbian offend that doctrine."
		The myth at the time was that Fernandez was forcing schools to use the controversial second grade teacher guide, "Children of the Rainbow," which included a section on families headed by gay or lesbian parents among other family constellations.
		Some school systems elsewhere, including in small Midwestern towns, have instituted programming for gay students in response to successful civil rights lawsuits brought by gay young people who were repeatedly harassed and beaten in school while the administration looked the other way.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/civilrights/20030805/3/484 (1341 words)

	Windy City Media Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Contrary to the alarmist yelpings of the naysayers, the Harvey Milk School does not have as its goal the segregation and isolation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students from the mainstream.
		The school is simply a last-resort alternative for a small group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students who have been so harassed, so attacked in their regular school systems, that they would otherwise drop out altogethe.
		The fact that the Harvey Milk School has a nearly 20-year track record of helping such kids, and the fact that there is already a waiting list to get into it, shows that the school is working.
	www.windycitymediagroup.com /article-35558.html (816 words)

	The Harvey Milk School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hetrick-Martin Institute) It is the plan to expand the school from 50 to 170 students and its reclassification as a stand-alone high school that has attracted tabloid news interest and attacks from conservatives.
		But even with an expansion of Harvey Milk to 100 and later 170 students, it is clear that, in a system with more than a million students, most lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth will remain in mainstream schools.
		Debra Smock, administrator of the Harvey Milk School, said, "In a perfect world, there wouldn't be a need for Harvey Milk School." But the question is whether this school will be used as an excuse to abandon efforts to change the anti-gay atmosphere in the vast majority of mainstream schools.
	sophia.smith.edu /prism/The_Harvey_Milk_School.html (1325 words)

	Gay kids get own school / Harvey Milk High opens in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Harvey Milk High will be academically challenging, offering courses in computer technology, the arts and culinary programs in a supportive learning environment, he said.
		Harvey Milk officials say students are getting hurt in regular school, dropping out and cutting their futures short.
		Milk was a big supporter of public education and led the successful fight against then-Sen. John Briggs' initiative that would have banned gay teachers from public classrooms when Ammiano was an openly gay teacher.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/09/MN292862.DTL (1006 words)

	CNN.com - High school for gay students stirs controversy - Aug. 25, 2003
		The school, believed to be the first of its kind and scope in the nation, expects about 100 students when it opens in its expanded form next month.
		Harvey Milk isn't pushing a gay agenda, Mensah said, and prides itself on its academic success.
		Harvey Milk, she said, was open to students of all backgrounds.
	www.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/08/25/sprj.sch.gay.school.ap (774 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Magazine \| When most of your school is gay
		The majority of pupils at Harvey Milk High School in New York are gay and were bullied at their previous school for their sexuality.
		Harvey Milk refuses to be classified as a "gay school" even though that is the general perception of it from opponents and supporters alike.
		Critics of the school wonder how teenagers can be clear enough about their sexuality at such a young age, to ask for a place at Harvey Milk.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4023335.stm (1506 words)

	Harvey Milk School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, the school states that each individual who wishes to join the school must demonstrate that he or she in danger of dropping out of their current school because of harassment.
		The Harvey Milk School is a step in the opposite direction towards recognizing the equality of all human beings.
		The Harvey Milk School is open to all applicants regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
	www.webbschool.com /theoracle/october_2003/harvey_milk_school.htm (726 words)

	Workers World Aug. 28, 2003: Harvey Milk School under siege
		Founded in 1984, the Harvey Milk School recently hired its first principal and was awarded $3.2 million to expand its classrooms and increase its 50 students to 170.
		Harvey Milk was assassinated by a right-wing bigot in 1978.
		The Harvey Milk School struggle is in itself the fight for safety and equality for LGBT students, many of whom have endured years of torment, discrimination and violence in other schools.
	www.workers.org /ww/2003/lgbt0828.php (752 words)

	The Collegian Online: Harvey Milk High School: Voluntary Segregation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Others are opposed to Harvey Milk High School because they feel that there will be no end to this type of segregation (they ask, will we also start a school for chubby children, or for children who are made fun of because they wear glasses?).
		Harvey Milk although it was designed to be a school for LGBT youth it is open to anyone who is willing to attend.
		I went to a high school in the Bronx where everyday i had to pretend to act super hetero so that i would not be physically assaulted beyond recognition, as a couple of "effeminate" students had.
	www.utulsa.edu /collegian/article.asp?article=1796 (1864 words)

	AEGiS-LT: Unique School Helps Youths With No Place to Go
		The Harvey Milk School, named after the gay San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated in 1978, is a refuge for such teen-agers.
		The Harvey Milk School was criticized on moral grounds when it first opened, but city officials said it was a valid program that deserved to continue.
		Although the school has a small number of students, administrators believe they are dealing with the tip of the iceberg when it comes to troubled homosexual adolescents in New York.
	www.aegis.com /news/lt/1989/LT891207.html (1401 words)

	harvey milk school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	all-search.us /video/harvey-milk-school.html (1290 words)

	village voice > news > The School Hate Built by Nick P. Divito
		One former Bushwick High School student, who gave his name as Rigo, dropped out after someone pulled a gun on him outside his school when it became known that he was gay.
		Each application is evaluated by a committee of administrators from the school and the city's Department of Education.
		Meanwhile, the Milk School estimates that it serves only 2 percent of queer students in the city system.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0337/divito.php (1192 words)

	Journal of Law and Education: NEW YORK'S HARVEY MILK SCHOOL: A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE
		The public school system has provided funds to expand a high school that will primarily serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students who are at high risk for dropping out of the education system.
		The mission of the Harvey Milk High School and its admission criteria will be examined, as well as the lawsuit that suggests this partnership is unconstitutional and the recent federal legislation that places that assertion in doubt.
		Individuals on both sides of the Harvey Milk School debate agree that regardless of whether this school remains a partnership with New York City, it is not capable of serving all the LGBT students in the New York City public schools.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3994/is_200407/ai_n9442137 (956 words)

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		To download an application to the Harvey Milk School in New York City, the first publicly funded high school to serve the needs of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (GLBT) youth, one only has to click a side-banner on the Hetrick-Martin Institute website, facetiously portraying a jug of milk and the now well-known dairy as slogan.
		Harvey Milk High is a safety net for these at-risk students.
		That Harvey Milk High needs to exist at all is the strongest argument for some overdue changes in public education.
	www.mit.edu /~thistle/v15/3/gotschool.html (956 words)

	NYC’s Harvey Milk School deserves support
		The school has become a target for right-wing nut jobs such as Rev. Fred Phelps, who brought his homophobic zealots to New York City to protest the school’s opening.
		Even if it is solely on the basis of protecting gay (or straight) students’ right to attend an openly pro-gay school in the face of this right-wing assault, we should support this school being able to keep its doors open.
		Hanson is right that this school will not solve the problem of homophobia, but it does not make sense to counterpose the existence of HMS to the fight to free all schools from homophobia.
	www.socialistworker.org /2003-2/468/468_04_HarveryMilk.shtml (372 words)

	New York Blade Online
		The Milk School, he explains, was originally formed as an answer to New York City’s most challenged gay students —75 percent of them minorities.
		She and her colleagues asked themselves, “Why are these kids not in school?” One teenager responded that he had not been in school in a year because he felt safer on the street than he did in school.
		Opportunities to attend the school have always been open to all public school pupils, although many were sent by judges from juvenile facilities.
	www.nyblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=564 (1011 words)

	The Controversy Over the Harvey Milk School
		With its compact physical space and tiny enrollment, the school, David Mensah argues, is simply one example of the Bloomberg administration’s revolutionary approach to education: the breaking up of vast, anonymous, 7,000-student educational gristmills into smaller, more intimate schools devoted to a single theme—science, dance, the arts.
		Many Harvey Milk students first come to the school as runaways seeking help from its umbrella organization, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a social-services agency that for 25 years has been ministering to “at risk” gay teens.
		The school actually began back in 1985 as a tiny non-diploma-granting institution within HMI—a place for the agency’s displaced youths to earn a GED degree, taught by one full-time instructor hired by the Board of Education.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/features/10970 (941 words)

	Number 2 Pencil: Suing Harvey Milk High School
		I, among others, thought that isolating gay teens in their own high school was unnecessarily divisive, would help perpetuate stereotyping, and wouldn't solve the problem of the bullying attitudes in regular public schools.
		Harvey Milk is a tiny school, realistically only able to serve a tiny percentage of kids in the city.
		Harvey Milk is a safe haven for LGBTQ students.
	www.kimberlyswygert.com /archives/000197.html (2759 words)

	CNN.com - First public gay high school to open in NYC - Jul. 29, 2003
		The Harvey Milk High School will enroll about 100 students and open in a newly renovated building in the fall.
		The school is an expansion of a two-classroom public school program that began in 1984.
		The new school's principal, William Salzman, said the school will be academically challenging and will follow mandatory English and math programs.
	www.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/07/28/gay.school.ap (341 words)

	planetCH.COM: Harvey Milk High School: Discuss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I made this much clear to Geoff as he proceeded with his argument that the school is doing a world of good for these displaced youngsters, many of whom have been bouncing around the streets of New York after being kicked out of their parents' houses.
		I do not deny that Harvey Milk offers a safe environment for these kids to explore their individuality without fear of reprisal or violence, helping to build up their sense of self-worth and confidence.
		I can certainly understand the anti-segregationist argument, but there's more to life than school and these kids will still be living in the real world for their whole school career whether they like it or not.
	www.planetch.com /archives/001613.html (939 words)

	FilteringCraig.com - Your daily dose of something or other
		The Harvey Milk School strives to develop life-long independent learners by creating a participative educational environment focused on academic excellence, with a special emphasis on arts and technology.
		The kids that get to go to this school are not in anyway shape or form like you & me. These kids have been neglected by their parents & peers for numerous reasons, with the biggest one being because they are gay.
		This school is also not some sort of Fancy-Shmancy Prep School, so I do not think the straight kids will be beating down the door to attend (and they probably won't have a drama class).
	www.filteringcraig.com /blog/archives/000224.html (1035 words)

	theonlyjuan.net » harvey milk hs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Harvey Milk ’s stand on gay rights was that everyone should come out–and tell people that not all gays are transvesties and child molesters.
		It’s not exactly a ’school for gays.’; I think it would be more accurately called a ’school for troubled gays’ or ‘for gays in difficult situations.’ Generally, the students are those who’ve been thrown out on the street for being GLBT, repeatedly harassed (in extreme ways) by former schoolmates, or worse.
		The school is not to reform people, it is to allow them to be themselvs where they will feel most comfortable, with others most similar to them.
	theonlyjuan.net /2003/09/12/harvey-milk-hs (702 words)

	Gay Crime Syndicate? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Last month, three Harvey Milk students were charged with gang assault after a group of teens stabbed a man in the back with a screwdriver in the parking lot of a Starbucks coffee shop across the street from the school.
		How ironic that a school that was supposedly established to shelter gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (meaning transsexual or transvestite) teens has become the home of what appears to be a growing crime syndicate.
		When news broke this summer that Harvey Milk would become the first public school of its kind, Principal William Salzman said, “This school will be a model for the country and possibly the world.” If the early results are any indication, let’s hope not.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1021474/posts (1283 words)

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