Since taking office in 2022, the Brooklyn council member and former teacher has visited nearly 100 schools across the five boroughs.
Collins landed a promotion and big raise after Eric Adams took office. Now she’s retiring amid allegations that she hasn’t been showing up to work.
Schools are not required to report their recess policies, but many parents want more information on how much outdoor time or play their children get during the school day.
Since taking office in 2022, the Brooklyn council member and former teacher has visited nearly 100 schools across the five boroughs.
Collins landed a promotion and big raise after Eric Adams took office. Now she’s retiring amid allegations that she hasn’t been showing up to work.
Schools are not required to report their recess policies, but many parents want more information on how much outdoor time or play their children get during the school day.
Students will still take Regents exams across New York, but will not be required to pass them to earn a diploma.
The recruitment effort comes at a time when city and state education leaders have called for more robust financial education in schools.
Some experts said the public messaging efforts were a good first step but would likely have minimal impact.
New York education officials are expected to unveil new details about the state’s efforts to reimagine high school graduation requirements at a Board of Regents meeting next week.
Four years after New York City overhauled its summer program to blend academics and recreation, lawmakers want to know if it’s working.
Many families and educators had complained about having a one-day school week before the winter break.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos wants to ensure no parent has to make the impossible choices her mother did.
The Education Department tried to close P.S. 25 six years ago. Will they succeed this time?
New York City, like other districts across the country, is grappling with a yearslong enrollment decline and a growing number of tiny schools.
Washington Heights, an area that has recently welcomed more migrant students, is losing after-school seats in a state funding overhaul.
Dozens of cultural arts organizations flocked to Lincoln Center for an event held by Council member Gale Brewer, connecting local schools to arts education programs.
The letters helped spur a dramatic spike in CUNY applications, which multiplied nearly fivefold last fall compared to the year before.
Years of shortages have led to a staggering problem across the state, with few solutions on the horizon.
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At a meeting later this month, the city’s Panel for Educational Policy will consider a contract to tap the assessment company Pearson to develop a computerized version of the test.
Early childhood advocates have called for higher wages amid stubborn pay disparities between employees at community-run preschools and their Education Department counterparts.
A student's GPA is crucial in NYC high school admissions. How much do socioeconomics tip the scales?
The way students are sorted in the city’s notoriously ruthless admissions process tends to hurt those from low-income backgrounds, children with disabilities, and others.
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.
Yan Carlos Mejia now incorporates materials from his visits to the Frida Kahlo Museum, Machu Picchu, and other stops in Latin America to help his students learn English.
The pushback from the influential teachers union raises questions about the long-term prospects of the math curriculum’s success.
It wouldn’t be Banks’ first foray into authorship: He previously wrote a book about his experience founding Eagle Academy, a network of public schools focused on Black and Latino boys.
Weisberg, the department’s second in command, oversees a sprawling portfolio. Can he keep the system steady in the wake of Banks’ sudden resignation and chaos at City Hall?
The delay comes as this year’s fifth graders will be able to apply widely to middle schools across the city for the first time, instead of largely being limited to their home zone or district.
How to get ‘school avoidant’ students with disabilities back to class? Lawsuit pushes for solutions.
New York City has no systemwide policy to ensure that these students are receiving the “free appropriate public education” they are entitled to under the law, a new lawsuit claims.
School-based reports from September to January about incidents related to ethnicity or national origin jumped 30% from the year before. Reports related to religion were up nearly 78%.
The former United Way of NY CEO also happens to be newly married to outgoing Schools Chancellor David Banks, whose home was raided before he announced his resignation.
Student trips are up 36% since New York City switched to OMNY cards. Here are some key figures to help understand the new program.
The abrupt change means Deputy Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos will take over the nation’s largest school system later this month.
More than half of NYC schools have new door-locking systems to keep out intruders. Many hope it will keep buildings safer, but some worry it will make some parents feel uninvited.
The schedule lists roughly 40 meetings and events over a span of eight months covering more than 150 work days.
The city’s notoriously complex high school admissions process opened Tuesday. Middle school kicks off Oct. 9. Families will soon be able to access their random number, or 'lottery' number, in MySchools.
BusPatrol, run by the former chief of staff to New York City Deputy Mayor Phil Banks, was one of two companies chosen to pilot school bus cameras.
As a digital native, I worry about my students’ screen time — and my own.
New York City families can apply to more than 12 high schools this year, as well as any middle school across the city, the city’s Education Department announced.