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Students from several high schools were joined by City Councilman Robert Jackson for a protest of the city’s recent ban on bake sales during the school day. Jackson, who chairs the Council’s education committee, signed the students’ petition and then partook of a few chocolate chip cookies. (more…)

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Two high school students are waging a campaign to get the Department of Education’s recent ban on lunch-time bake sales overturned.

Seth Hoffman, a senior at Beacon High School, and Matthew Melore, a senior at Bronx Science High School, will begin circulating a petition in their schools tomorrow, calling for the DOE to lift its restrictions on when and what students can sell to raise money for clubs.

Frustration over the new rules has already spilled into Facebook, which now hosts two pages — one created by Hoffman, the other by Melore — about the ban. Hundreds of students from other public high schools around the city have already joined both groups.

“Kids are talking about this a lot,” said Hoffman, 17. “This past week, everywhere I’ve been going it’s been a topic of discussion.” (more…)