The annual NYC school survey reveals a mixed picture: Teacher approval for Chancellor Aviles-Ramos is up, but many students say they don’t feel challenged.
Worried about AI, tutors, and parents helping with admissions essays, Beacon High School will now require applicants to write their essays in person.
The mayor became known for slashing the Education Department’s budget, but the full picture is more complex.
The annual NYC school survey reveals a mixed picture: Teacher approval for Chancellor Aviles-Ramos is up, but many students say they don’t feel challenged.
Worried about AI, tutors, and parents helping with admissions essays, Beacon High School will now require applicants to write their essays in person.
The mayor became known for slashing the Education Department’s budget, but the full picture is more complex.
Eight months into the job, NYC chancellor shares a new accountability tool along with a vague plan on how AI will become part of NYC schools.
Eric Adams’ decision to exit the race means the nation’s largest school system will be overseen by a new administration when he leaves office in January.
Cuomo has pressed his case in recent weeks for expanding the charter sector, closing low-performing schools, and adding new specialized programs.
Kim Sweet, the longtime leader of Advocates for Children, reflects on the school system’s progress (and failures) in educating vulnerable kids.
Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student detained by federal agents in May, was denied asylum and ordered back to Venezuela. His lawyers are appealing the ruling.
At stake is $36 million in federal grants earmarked for NYC schools that are being withheld because city officials did not alter policies designed to protect transgender students.
After the Trump administration threats, Mayor Eric Adams began criticizing city policies that give trans students access to bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
A baby bird. A neon green mascot. NYC students are adapting to the state’s new cellphone ban, and educators are trying to play up its positive aspects.
The program is part of a strategy to equip young people not only to care for their own well-being, but also to support peers in crisis — and to recognize when to guide them toward professional help.
After a major charter school rally, 2 state senators are calling for an investigation into whether schools pressured families and staff to attend.
Parents speak out about school choice, funding, and mayoral race at charter school march in Brooklyn
Parents and charter school leaders spoke about school choice, funding, and the mayoral race.
Mayor Eric Adams made comments at odds with city and state policy that allows students to use bathrooms aligning with their gender identity.
Elevated rates of absenteeism have bedeviled school districts across the country in the wake of the pandemic.
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After seeing the toll burnout was taking on her colleagues, this Manhattan teacher traveled to Spain and Italy to learn new ways to help them recharge and find joy.
A new report from NYC’s Education Department shows that 90 out of about 400 high schools offer journalism classes.
‘We need a show of force’: NYC charter schools to march over Brooklyn Bridge before mayoral election
Charter school leaders are planning to rally on Thursday, less than two months before the mayoral election. Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner, has criticized the sector.
Dylan Lopez Contreras has been detained since being arrested by federal immigration agents three months ago. His asylum case comes before a judge on Monday.
A New York City autism charter school is pioneering virtual reality to teach its students vital social skills. The method is showing promising results, according to new research.
If Zohran Mamdani takes the helm at City Hall, how he picks his schools chief could be an early test of whether he will consider community feedback in governing the nation’s largest school system.
While state law requires 180 days, New York City’s school calendar counts four staff development days to meet the requirement, leaving some parents dismayed.
Roughly half of English learners didn’t receive required instruction, out of nearly 300 students sampled in the audit.
New York City schools are distributing 350,000 devices, complete with internet access, to help close the digital divide and replace outdated equipment.
The frontrunner to be the city’s next mayor has not committed to releasing a detailed vision for the city’s public schools before the election.
Eric Adams and Zohran Mamdani both visited schools in Queens to kick off the year.
A former Queens COVID testing site is now a $178 million state-of-the-art campus for high schools focused on health care, film, and tech, as well as a special education school.
New York City schools face major policy changes from class size caps to a statewide cellphone ban and a pivotal mayoral election that could reshape the system midyear.
With just days left for NYC families to claim $120 per child in summer food benefits, millions of dollars are going unclaimed as the Sept. 4 application deadline looms.
New standards for school lunches and hospital meals include a ban on processed meats and restrictions on artificial colors, additives, and preservatives.
At M.S. 50, educators believe that student debaters make the best arguments when they believe what they’re saying — and it draws on their own experiences.
The department had mulled moving its division handling public school safety from a community bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell.
Dan Weisberg, the system’s second-in-command, and Deputy Chancellor Emma Vadehra, are stepping down. The pair were leading implementation of a new class size mandate.
Officials aim to bring in 3,700 extra new teachers on top of normal annual hiring to help reduce class sizes across the city.
Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos sits down with P.S. Weekly student journalists to preview the new school year, discussing the cellphone ban, restorative justice, and the SHSAT.