Vulnerable populations

Schools issued 27,724 suspensions during the 2023-24 school year, a 2.4% decline year over year. But superintendent suspensions, which last six days or longer, ticked up about 1%.

The Panel for Educational Policy was slated to vote on a proposed revision to a 2009 regulation concerning student privacy, but members want the public to weigh in.

Roughly one in eight students in New York City’s public school system were living in temporary housing last school year, according to Advocates for Children.

Four years after New York City overhauled its summer program to blend academics and recreation, lawmakers want to know if it’s working.

Some counties have very low rates, and all that's needed in those unvaccinated pockets is a spark — an infected person traveling — to spread measles like wildfire.

Titled “Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech,” the exhibit opened on Wednesday, and follows a partnership between the city’s Education Department and the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

New report from Department of Youth and Community Development shows hundreds of young people often can’t find a shelter bed.

New York City is pledging $2 million to keep some programs open for more hours as part of an effort to reduce youth violence during the summer months.

Brooklyn Frontiers High School recently enrolled eight Guinean immigrants, with help from the nonprofit InsideSchools to improve the enrollment process for older immigrant students.

Schools are supposed to give parents of students in temporary housing free MetroCards each month. But problems with distributing them are leading to absences and fare evasion tickets.

Young adults at Rikers are entitled to attend the Education Department’s East River Academy and work towards a high school diploma or GED.

The staffers play a critical role on the front lines of two colliding crises: the exploding number of students living in homeless shelters, and elevated rates of chronic absenteeism in the wake of the pandemic.

Federal law that protects the educational rights of homeless children and youth under 21 says young adults should be enrolled in school immediately, but the city is not meeting this requirement, advocates say.

La ley federal protege los derechos a la educación de los niños y jóvenes menores de 21 años sin hogar y establece que los jóvenes adultos deben ser matriculados inmediatamente en la escuela, pero la ciudad no está cumpliendo este requisito, dicen los defensores.