State Sen. John Liu suggested the city could phase in smaller class sizes over four years instead of two. Any changes to the 2022 mandate are likely to spark debate in Albany.

Despite campaigning to end mayoral control, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is fighting to keep it — but his former Albany colleagues aren’t making it easy.

Graduation rates fell in New York City and statewide for the Class of 2025 as pandemic-era exemptions to graduation requirements have phased out.

Six of 11 members of Samuels’ cabinet are staying in roles they assumed in the previous administration.

Two more senior Education Department officials are leaving as Samuels tees up his first major cabinet appoints.

Aviles-Ramos started a new job this week as a senior advisor at HMH, a curriculum company that does tens of millions of dollars of business with NYC’s public schools.

Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels said the city will scrap plans to close the Community Action School after a mom’s comment at a public meeting that appeared to insult the intelligence of a Black student garnered national attention.

Kamar Samuels’ proposals represent the school system’s first concrete policy response after a Manhattan mom’s racist comment drew widespread condemnation.

After a Hunter College professor was caught on a hot mic making a racist remark, parent leaders demanded she be fired and urged the city’s Education Department to expand access to its Black Studies curriculum.

City officials said 8,000 Education Department employees have been working to prepare school buildings to reopen on Tuesday.