If Zohran Mamdani takes the helm at City Hall, how he picks his schools chief could be an early test of whether he will consider community feedback in governing the nation’s largest school system.
Roughly half of English learners didn’t receive required instruction, out of nearly 300 students sampled in the audit.
The frontrunner to be the city’s next mayor has not committed to releasing a detailed vision for the city’s public schools before the election.
Eric Adams and Zohran Mamdani both visited schools in Queens to kick off the year.
Dan Weisberg, the system’s second-in-command, and Deputy Chancellor Emma Vadehra, are stepping down. The pair were leading implementation of a new class size mandate.
Marc Kagan reflects on his experience teaching Mamdani, a notable parent conference with the mayoral hopeful’s father, and why he became a teacher at age 47.
Nearly 1,000 teaching fellows were supposed to be paid to help cover living expenses during their summer training. The checks didn’t arrive until after the program ended.
This fall, NY schools must follow a “bell-to-bell” phone ban — but policies vary by school. Tell us your school's plans.
The bump in reading scores is good news for Mayor Eric Adams’ literacy overhaul. But the results can’t definitively show whether curriculum changes are driving the gains.
Of the 51 steps outlined in the 2023 court order, education officials have only implemented 21 of them.