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Article: New York City schools lack sufficient math, science teachers.

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October 4, 2004
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By Kathleen Lucadamo, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 4--With dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon, 12-year-old Kaitlin Silva makes the long trek from her home in Queens to a special Brooklyn middle school for the sciences.

But three weeks into classes at the School for Health and Biomedical Sciences in Sunset Park, Kaitlin still doesn't have a science teacher.

"How do you have a science program with no science teachers?" asked Kaitlin's mom, Pat Silva, 45. "I'm beginning to think they have a themed school in name only."

With a dwindling national pool of science teachers combined with the city's race ...

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