Vulnerable populations
At Voyages Prep in Elmhurst, students found purpose and accountability through a hands-on project to renovate a playground. Their effort won $50,000 and changed how they viewed their own potential.
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 education campaign, “Cannabis Honestly,” is based on listening sessions with roughly 450 young people and their adult caregivers.
The chancellor suggested community-led working groups in 5 districts could help address thorny challenges from segregation to enrollment declines.
For thousands of students with disabilities, yellow buses are a lifeline to programs that meet their needs — but constant delays and no-shows force them to miss school. P.S. Weekly explores the systemic failures and emotional toll of a broken system.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will retain control of the nation’s largest school system through June 2028. The city will also receive $143 million in new funding for homeless students, children in foster care, and English language learners.
Modernizing the city’s school bus routing system has been delayed for years. Officials say new software is finally coming this fall.
NYC students in foster care are entitled to school bus service, but it can take weeks or more to start. Advocates are calling on city officials to invest $3 million to provide transit while they wait.
Suspensions have slipped below pre-pandemic levels, though the reasons are something of a mystery.
Last school year, 63% of the roughly 65,000 students who lived in homeless shelters were marked chronically absent — meaning they missed at least 1 in 10 school days.
Chancellor Kamar Samuels is vowing to shift the city’s literacy overhaul to focus on middle and high school students who have long slipped through the cracks.
Graduation rates fell in New York City and statewide for the Class of 2025 as pandemic-era exemptions to graduation requirements have phased out.
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.
A federal judge rejected a lawsuit claiming NYC school suspensions violate students’ constitutional rights.
Federal officials argue New York City’s policy allowing transgender athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity violates prohibitions on sex discrimination.
Students in juvenile detention often don’t receive required special education support and struggle to reengage with school when they’re released.
The city’s highest-need schools stand to benefit the least from the new class size caps, and a group of advocates want to give the city time to negotiate changes to the law.
Black students, children with disabilities, and those living in foster care were disproportionately removed from their classrooms.