Education Reporting in NYC
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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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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The city’s inequality gap was on display this week at two public high school fundraisers. Stuyvesant High School parents intended to raise $80,000; students and teachers at Queens High School for Research, Information and Technology were hoping for $2,000.
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The Queens High School for Information, Research and Technology, a small, struggling school in Far Rockaway, took in a large percentage of the more than 700 Central American refugee children who flooded into the U.S. in the last two years.
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Dan Pettrota is a math teacher at World Journalism Prep, who stepped down from the Broadway stage to enter the classroom through the New York City Teaching Fellows.
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The web is helping journalism teachers in the city and nation create engaging lessons for a school subject that’s long suffered from unpopularity.
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The city’s tangled data entry system cost teachers hours of mind-numbing number punching
Read MoreThe New York Daily News reports that parents in Northwestern Queens are considering a lawsuit against the city over its plan to shrink the number of students eligible for the …
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.
Read MoreAs an immigrant herself, Ivi Hiraldo has a special bond with her students
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