Village Academy in the Far Rockaway section of Queens will close Thursday after health department officials determined COVID-19 is spreading in the school, according to the education department. It is the second New York City…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to be dragging his feet again when it comes to making reforms to the city’s starkly segregated gifted and talented programs — and comments made Tuesday by…
New York City’s vaccination mandate for education department employees was put on hold after a federal judge on Friday night temporarily blocked it, officials said. The requirement to receive at least one dose of the…
New York City is expanding its COVID vaccination requirements for students, making the shots mandatory for those who participate in extracurricular activities that are considered high risk, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday. The…
Walking through the hallway at Francis Lewis High School is like an Olympic sport, said Arthur Goldstein, an English as a second language teacher and dean at the coveted Queens school. The building operates at…
For Mitrajita Persaud, a salary bump would mean more than just financial stability. After almost four decades teaching young children, and three years leading a preschool in New York City, it would also boost her…
The makeup of New York City’s local Community Education Councils will shift significantly in some corners of the city — with potentially long-lasting consequences for school diversity plans, according to election results released this week. Though…
When New York City last had an empty seat in the mayor’s office, the winning candidate rose to popularity in part on a signature education policy proposal: extending public pre-kindergarten to all children. During this…
Learning online made it clear to sophomore Brianna Dacosta that her pre-pandemic class schedule was not manageable. This year, she only had four subjects a day, about half of what she had before. Splitting up…