Dr. Leora Horwitz treats fewer and fewer covid patients at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Still, she thinks there are too many. And they almost all have something in common. “I’ve only…
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…
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…
These words appeared over and over when we asked our readers in New York City and Newark earlier this year to tell us how the pandemic impacted their school communities. We heard from 275 parents,…
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…
When Daniel Hurewitz thinks back to his experience of coming out as gay as a Harvard University student in the 1980s, he mostly remembers the multitude of novels he read about gay life, while hiding…
Homeless students and those with disabilities who receive round trip busing during the school year could be excluded from a significant chunk of the city’s summer school program due to lack of transportation, a move…
In 16 years, Edward Sanchez wants you to vote for him for mayor. For now, he has to finish high school. A grueling year and a half of remote learning has indelibly marked the 17-year-old…
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…
News reports Wednesday indicated that Manhattan state lawmakers have thwarted plans to greenlight a casino for the New York City borough, but plans are still proceeding to eventually award three casino licenses to downstate communities….