Nearly four months after taking office, Mayor Eric Adams has yet to fill every seat on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy, which is charged with approving education department contracts and certain policy decisions including…
An annual rite of passage for New York’s third through eighth graders is back — state testing season. As the English exam is set to be administered Tuesday and Wednesday in its usual form for…
In his first budget proposal since taking office, Mayor Eric Adams this week outlined cuts to the education department and other city agencies. The backlash was swift. Some education advocates called it a “scarcity” budget,…
Mirroring trends across the nation, the number of children being home-schooled has dramatically increased in New York City. This school year, roughly 14,800 children across the five boroughs have opted to learn outside of school…
David Banks, New York City’s next school chancellor, has a message to families of the nation’s largest school system: “They will be seen… They will be respected.” This is your chance to start speaking out….
Next year, students will get back an hour of the school day, marking a return to six hours and 20 minutes The year is ending the way it started: with confusion. Friday marks the end…