More than half of NYC schools have new door-locking systems to keep out intruders. Many hope it will keep buildings safer, but some worry it will make some parents feel uninvited.
Eric Adams’ indictment is both symbolically and practically significant for the nation’s largest school system, which is under mayoral control.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Aviles-Ramos has been a teacher, principal, acting superintendent, chief of staff for David Banks, and a deputy chancellor for family engagement.
After a funding drama threatened its theater program last year, Manhattan’s Professional Performing Arts School got $632,000 to save it this year — except the school chose a new partner.
Gregory Faulkner will remain chair of the 24-member panel for the 2024-25 school year. Mayor Eric Adams selected him from among three candidates.
Schools Chancellor David Banks was especially excited for the first day. “It represents the rebirth of our school system,” he said.
NYC is an outlier when it comes to the number of days educators are required to be back at school before students arrive. Many say those two days are not enough.
“There's a way that you walk differently when you have certain experiences behind or within you,” said Bijoun Eric Jordan, who teaches at Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School.
New York City’s Public School Athletic League has 25 girls fencing teams and 22 boys fencing teams. Olympian Anne Cebula fenced when she attended Brooklyn Tech.
Schools would have to come up with their own policies on how to ban phones and would not get additional funding, principals told Chalkbeat.