Offers for New York City’s free preschool programs went out last week. In some neighborhoods, demand outstripped supply, but in others, thousands of seats will go unfilled.
A state education official revealed that some districts are tapping virtual learning to support immigrant students frightened to attend school.
Class size reduction is projected to cost billions of dollars. We asked the mayoral candidates how they approach the state mandate and where the money should come from.
Offers for New York City’s free preschool programs went out last week. In some neighborhoods, demand outstripped supply, but in others, thousands of seats will go unfilled.
A state education official revealed that some districts are tapping virtual learning to support immigrant students frightened to attend school.
Class size reduction is projected to cost billions of dollars. We asked the mayoral candidates how they approach the state mandate and where the money should come from.
Episode 6 of P.S. Weekly wades into the complicated world of New York City school bathroom policies, including the much loathed 10-5-10 rule limiting use between and during classes.
Chalkbeat asked every mayoral candidate whether they would keep the NYC Reads and NYC Solves curriculum mandates in place. Here’s what they told us.
Voting was halted on the first day over ‘technical issues.’ Problems have snowballed since then.
The longtime UFT president’s role in approving the loathed Medicare Advantage cost-savings switch of retiree health insurance has rival candidates gunning to dislodge him.
With Community Education Council elections underway, there are signs of growing resistance to what some parents see as an alarming rightward shift in local education politics.
NYC schools are getting a $539 million state aid increase — but it could have been over $850 million
Advocacy groups blasted the changes to the Foundation Aid formula, arguing that they will harm high-need school districts.
Episode 5 of P.S. Weekly looks at the rise of AI in education. Students and teachers sound off on AI’s practical uses as well concerns about creativity and academic integrity.
Less than a decade ago, Keiron Darnley often skipped class. Now he’s a success mentor at Brooklyn’s A-Tech High School.
Under the policy, school districts across the state will have until this summer to craft their implementation plans and must begin enforcing them at the start of next school year.
The seven new schools are part of a multiyear flurry of openings that city officials hope will reinvigorate the system at a time of faltering enrollment.
A funding shortfall in the state budget forced New York City to freeze enrollment for a popular child care voucher program for low-income families.
Here’s what I wish I could say when someone asks, ‘Where are you from?’
Overall, Adams’ executive budget proposes roughly $18.3 billion in city funding for the Education Department’s operating budget, a $670 million increase from this year.
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Episode 4 of P.S. Weekly tackles teacher turnover and how turbulent relationships between teachers and administrators might be a major contributing factor.
For decades, these clinics have provided a wide range of health care to students, offering vaccines, teeth cleaning, or help for mental health struggles, all at no cost.
The Education Department is using an emergency contract to buy 15 X-ray machines, circumventing the regular purchasing process.
Multiple parents reported problems with the election site Friday morning, including parents appearing on ballots for seats for which they are not running.
For children of immigrants, including those with undocumented parents, the college financial aid process comes with great hurdles and anxieties.
Education Department officials are hoping that programs like one at Brooklyn International can serve as a model to help the city creatively address a historic teacher hiring challenge.
In an exclusive interview, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos explained why she believes middle school math curriculums should be standardized despite outcry from the teachers union.
The mayor’s reading and math curriculum mandates will cover all middle schools by fall 2027. It will likely fall to his successor to implement them.
Schools in other parts of the state faced problems administering the standardized exams, but officials say the problems have been fixed.
Harlem was home. Then a trip to Korea helped me understand the two cultures that shaped me.
City officials spent nearly half a billion dollars installing AC units. But the cost of repairing and replacing them now falls on individual school budgets.
City officials also promised to help stabilize Head Start providers facing funding threats from the Trump administration.
The abrupt removal of Superintendent Brendan Mims angered community members who said he’s pushed the district forward academically.
The state budget is overdue as lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul haggle over spending plans and other policy questions.
Some families cited a lack of affordable housing. Others were searching for better schools.
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.
Kristin Cahill, a principal in New York City, reflects on a new role for schools in a changing society.
Episode 2 of P.S. Weekly explores the patchwork approach New York City takes to sex education and why students are demanding a different approach.
Out of the city’s roughly 1,600 schools, a whopping 80% have been identified to have asbestos and are required by federal law to be inspected every three years.
Principals said they were grateful for the additional money, but expressed worry that a cutthroat hiring season could make it hard to find quality teachers.