Families wanting to see patients in Ohio hospitals would not be turned away during another pandemic if a bill that passed the Ohio House clears the Senate and is signed by Gov. Mike DeWine. House…
Roughly 8,400 of New York City students with disabilities are classified as having an “emotional disturbance,” a term that has rankled advocates and families for creating a stigma around behavioral challenges. That term may soon…
New York expects to drop its mask mandate for schools on Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Sunday afternoon. The governor said that individual counties and cities could maintain mask mandates if leaders in those…
At a time when divisions between Republicans and Democrats can seem as wide and deep as the Grand Canyon, both sides of the aisle increasingly agree on the need to hold Big Tech accountable. One…
Get ready for Summer Rising 2.0: New York City is bringing back last year’s summer school model, with academics in the morning and enrichment in the afternoon. Once again, it will be open to all…
Databases maintained by New York’s public watchdog agency remain down after state information technology officials learned its web servers were targeted in “a deliberate malicious cyberattack.” Last Friday evening, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics…
A potential opponent for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in June’s Democratic gubernatorial primary took a swipe at her, saying she committed a “flip-flop” on her position regarding a gas tax holiday. U.S. Rep. Tom…
There will not be any last-minute changes to how New York City’s selective public high schools admit students, Chancellor David Banks announced Wednesday. Banks had suggested last week that he was considering eleventh-hour tweaks in…
As people in the U.S. prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to…
With a stalled economy and projections of plummeting tax revenue, elected officials feared last winter that school budgets across New York would have to be slashed. Then, the federal government approved billions of dollars in…