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.

Education Department officials released the admissions statistics shortly after Chalkbeat published a story about the delays.

The delays have raised eyebrows among school integration advocates, government accountability groups, and even former department officials.

Many Teaching Fellows are owed up to $4,500 for participating in an intensive summer training program. City officials blamed bureaucratic snafus for the delayed payments.

The second-in-command weighed in on how long it will take reading curriculum mandates to pay off, hiring challenges connected to the class size mandate, and Zohran Mamdani’s education proposals.

Adams said the Trump administration’s move to freeze billions in federal education spending would not slow his effort to expand after-school programs.