New York City Department of Education
City officials urged the board to approve the $1.65 million deal that supports “mission critical” HR and enrollment systems. Opposition to Oracle and concerns about AI helped sink it.
With classes starting Sept. 10, school leaders say they’re unable to renew online gradebooks, family communication tools, and other routine software.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew blasted the city’s implementation of NYC Reads, citing excessive assessments and burdens on teachers.
New audits show improvement since a federal judge ordered reforms three years ago. But most services and payments still aren’t delivered on time.
The steep declines come as NYC enters the fourth year of its literacy overhaul. City officials say the results, which nearly wiped out last year’s gains, raise questions and require further analysis.
The mayor's appointees include education leaders, parent advocates, and nonprofit executives. The new board will weigh contentious issues including AI policies, school closures, and major contracts.
Wildfire smoke prompted NYC officials to move summer school activities indoors and reschedule field trips.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first budget boosts college savings accounts for kindergartners tenfold and restores funding for several education programs that had faced cuts.
The $8.9 million New Visions portal helps schools track attendance, graduation progress, and support homeless students. Educators and lawmakers say cutting it could undermine services that Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to expand.
NYC education officials are no longer planning to release final AI guidance in June. The delay comes amid growing backlash against the technology and the city’s draft guidance.
The Lower East Side’s Seward Park campus ended its own championship drought in March. On Thursday, four seniors rode through the Canyon of Heroes alongside the Knicks.
A separate agreement would offer teachers additional pay when classes exceed legal limits.
Modernizing the city’s school bus routing system has been delayed for years. Officials say new software is finally coming this fall.
Mamdani also vowed to curb soaring private special education costs and boost wages for some early childhood education workers.
White students receive a disproportionate share of special education tuition payments even though the vast majority of students with disabilities are Black or Latino.
An audit from the state comptroller reveals major concerns about student data privacy. Gaps in training, reporting delays, and lack of centralized tracking of school software could put NYC students at risk.
After a contentious proposal for an AI high school was nixed earlier this week, over 100 New Yorkers demanded a moratorium on artificial intelligence use in schools. The board meeting lasted seven hours.
The new tool gives caregivers and after-school providers access to books connected to what students are learning in class. But the rollout has been bumpy so far.
The ruling is a setback in the federal government’s push to control school district policies on major culture war issues, including trans rights.
Suspensions have slipped below pre-pandemic levels, though the reasons are something of a mystery.