Education Reporting in NYC
“New York’s made a big deal about mental health reform, but it hasn’t really trickled down into the schools,” said Tarah Montalbano, principal of William E. Grady HIgh School in Brighton Beach.
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Busloads of high school students across New York State lobbied state legislators last February to subsidize the cost of AP exams, courtesy of the College Board, the company that owns them.
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Special needs students in vocational classes could use special education trained teachers, but they are not required.
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A push to integrate Brooklyn’s District 15 schools has had the opposite effect on Park Slope Collegiate.
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The city shelter system does little to interrupt the chaos and disruption for homeless public school children
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Brownsville’s champion elementary school steppers — proud and young.
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Central American immigrant teenagers in Queens work overnight at under-the-table factory jobs to help families pay their bills and debts. Somehow the students make it to school the next morning.
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Did the redesigned SAT make the grade? SAT critics, test coaches, and college officials speak out.
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Some charter schools are rolling back their hours, just as some public schools are adding time to the school day. Research is mixed about whether it makes a difference.
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The benefits of good after-school programs are well known for those kids whose parents aren’t yet home from work. But at many schools like Brownsville’s P.S. 446, before-school programs are needed too.
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