Amy Zimmer

Amy Zimmer

Bureau Chief, Chalkbeat New York

Amy Zimmer is the Bureau Chief for Chalkbeat New York. She is an award-winning journalist who previously covered education for the New York news site DNAinfo. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Metro newspaper, and City Limits, among other outlets. Her book, “Meet Miss Subways,” focused on one of the nation’s first integrated beauty contests. She also led content strategy at the tech startup Localize.city. Amy received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale and has a master’s in journalism from New York University.

Many of the NYC mayoral candidates voiced support for the SHSAT and said they’d expand the number of specialized schools.

Teenagers representing dozens of high schools made the case that pushing back on President Donald Trump’s administration is a matter of standing up for constitutional rights.

As several politicians called for the release of the Bronx student arrested by ICE, one voice was notably more muted: Mayor Eric Adams’.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s plans to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and ordered the agency to bring back hundreds of employees it laid off earlier this year.

Voting was halted on the first day over ‘technical issues.’ Problems have snowballed since then.

Less than a decade ago, Keiron Darnley often skipped class. Now he’s a success mentor at Brooklyn’s A-Tech High School.

Multiple parents reported problems with the election site Friday morning, including parents appearing on ballots for seats for which they are not running.

Schools in other parts of the state faced problems administering the standardized exams, but officials say the problems have been fixed.

The lawsuit from 16 Democratic state attorney generals and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is part of a salvo of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s education directives.

Educators warned federal funding cuts could disrupt afterschool programs, support for homeless students, and more.