Education Reporting in NYC
Teachers in the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science in the Bronx help their eighth graders avoid the high-anxiety of applying for high school. It’s a 6 through 12 school.
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Students at Manhattan International High School hail from 57 different countries. In the peer tutoring elective, freshmen and sophomores are paired with seniors from similar backgrounds so that the students can relate better to each other as they navigate English, their schoolwork, and New York City.
Read MoreFew turned out Feb. 28 to protest the city’s plans to phase out Murry Bergtraum High School in five years, replacing it with a National Parks Service school. School-stories reporter Aisha Asif reported for GothamSchools.org that teachers believed the mayor’s policies over the years had decimated on the city’s best high schools, turning it into a “dumping ground” for high-needs students without providing adequate support.
Read MoreCommunity members from three small schools on the city’s chopping block–Brooklyn’s P.S. 73, East New York’s JHS 13, and Manhattan’s Freedom High– aired their frustrations, their unheralded successes on Feb. 25.
Read MoreReprising a march they held last fall, parents and community leaders stood outside P.S. 64 Pura Belpre with signs and mock sirens and declared a “state of emergency” in District 9 Thursday evening just before a public hearing about whether the South Bronx school should be phased out.
Read MoreSchool-Stories.org reporters Carey Reed and Andres Lopez cover the public hearings at M.S. 45 in East Harlem and Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn for GothamSchools.org. These are two schools on the DOE chopping block.
Read MoreSupporters of Harlem’s Bread and roses Integrated Arts High School still fighting to keep the school doors open
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Students at Opportunity Charter have speech therapy in the hallway while other classrooms in the building are empty and locked. These are the space wars in New York City.
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When a magnet and charter clash, some parents worry that their kids will lose out
Read MoreAll students in New York City homeless shelters are entitled to a public education. Sometimes it just takes them a little longer to get to school.
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