Nearly 1 in 10 New York City public school students were homeless last school year, a staggering rate that has barely budged for several years. About 101,000 students lived in unstable, or temporary, housing in…
It’s not just the delta variant that makes Zhenghao Lin, a Chinese immigrant, nervous about returning to school next month. Zhenghao, a rising senior at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn, said he has…
If someone in a New York City public school classroom tests positive for COVID this fall, fully vaccinated students and staff will not have to quarantine as long as they haven’t been infected and don’t…
The state teachers union, with support from its city counterpart, called for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation Tuesday after an investigation found that he sexually harassed multiple women, violating state and federal laws. The report from…
In the absence of coronavirus guidance for schools from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, state education officials on Thursday told school districts to use federal safety recommendations as a basis for their fall plans. In a…
New York City lawmakers approved Wednesday a record-high budget that will send billions more to schools, including for testing and tutoring students next fall, and a pilot program to reduce class sizes, a longtime goal…
Even as the city plans to dramatically increase the number of community schools by 2022, a change in how it funds the program is causing a mix of joy and frustration among its existing schools….
The education department is investigating the principal of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx for allegedly posting offensive content on his private Facebook page that referred to immigrants as “illegals,” suggested a transgender woman…
Flush with federal stimulus money, Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed hiring 500 more social workers as children return to buildings carrying the trauma from the pandemic’s grip on New York City. The hiring spree…
New York City schools will still require masks despite state guidance allowing localities to lift masking mandates Monday for schools and summer camps. The end of the in-school masking mandate was revealed Friday in a…