Demand for Free Childcare Seats for 2-Year-Olds Far Exceeds Supply in NYC Pilot
Nearly three families applied for each free childcare seat for 2-year-olds in New York City’s program rolling out…
NYC supe Josephine Van Ess caught self dealing, gets slap on wrist
A Queens superintendent who owns a company that did $1.5 million in contracts with the DOE received just…
NYC’s education chiefs just don’t care about teaching kids to read
New York City public schools have fallen completely back to the discredited practice of “social promotion” — moving…
School aide slashed by student during dispute at Bronx high school
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A school aide was slashed with what may have been a scalpel during…
City promotes nearly 100% of students in grades 3-8
New York City public schools held back just 0.4% of students in grades 3 through 8 last year…
This fall, the birthplace of hip-hop becomes home to the nation’s first School of Hip-Hop – Bronx Times
The first-of-its-kind Bronx School of Hip-Hop will open this fall and school staff intend to make sure students…
Here’s an easy way for cash-squeezed Mamdani to trim DOE’s monster budget
Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on cleaning up the Department of Education’s bloated contracting — promising to audit its…
Powerful UFT union boss pushed $10K teaching assistant raises
Powerful United Federation of Teachers union boss Michael Mulgrew was the driving force behind the City Council’s controversial…
NYC poised to pay $700K in Queens principal sex abuse lawsuit, with more payouts looming
One of “creepy” Queens high school principal William Bassell’s sex abuse accusers is poised to get a whopping…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalls audit of nearly $13B in no-bid NYC DOE contracts
Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalled Tuesday on handing over details of more than $12 billion in Department of Education…
NYC public schools continue to let students down — even years after being identified as failures
For more than a decade, New York City has introduced new ways to identify and improve struggling schools.…
NYC’s Elite Specialized High Schools Admit Disproportionately Few Black Students
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Of Staten Island Technical High School’s nearly…