NYC public schools lost out on staggering $431.6M in Medicaid payouts: audit
Big Apple public schools lost out on a staggering $431.6 million in Medicaid cash, failing to collect federal…
School Construction Authority acquires sites for three schools in Long Island City – QNS
The New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) has acquired sites for three new schools in Long Island…
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…
‘Stranger Things’ star Millie Bobby Brown surprises adorable NYC kids with acting lesson: ‘She’s so British’
She brought the West End to the Upper West Side. “Stranger Things” superstar Millie Bobby Brown surprised a…
From The Bronx to the Battery, More Funding for Free Swim Lessons
Thousands more public school students will receive free swim lessons next year under new City Council funding, part…
Can They Do That? Council Sets Vote on $10K Perk for Paraprofessionals
The City Council will vote this week on a bill to boost underpaid paraprofessionals in the city school…
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…
NYC teens turn stickers into a new form of Jewish activism
This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works…
906: The damning figure that tells the tragic story of NYC’s public school failure
The Success Academy charter-school network’s just-released report on New York City public-school failure is so shocking and troubling…
900 NYC schools failing students amid grade inflation, lax accountability
Welcome to New York’s flunking factories. Failure in the city’s public education system has become “normalized” — and…
Mamdani quietly adds $700M to NYC public schools’ already bloated budget
The Big Apple’s beleaguered Department of Education quietly got even more money in this year’s massive $126 billion…