Education Reporting in NYC
As the city continues to roll out its special education reform, teachers wonder if the elimination of “safety net” graduation provisions will negatively impact students with special needs.
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As the Academy for Careers in Television and Film experienced a leadership change in January, the school’s new principal hoped to avoid the dip in performance that plagues many new schools after the departure of their founding leader.
Read MoreThe Panel for Education Policy approved the city’s plan to phase-out 20 schools and close two others during a meeting on Monday night, the New York Post reported. Hundreds of …
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In her book “Random Family,” journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc chronicles the lives of two young women and their families as they struggle to navigate poverty, crime, drugs and life in the Bronx.
Read MoreA Community Education Council in Queens is opposing three new charter schools that are applying to open in District 24, the New York Daily News reports. The council — comprised …
Read MoreA special education teacher at Manhattan’s P.S. 183 was fired after a DOE investigation found he had used his school email account to send sexually explicit emails in response to …
Read MoreSouth Dakota became the first state to pass a law that explicitly allows teachers to carry guns at school, the New York Times reported on Friday. Some other states already have …
Read MoreDemocratic senators are asking New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore the $260 million in school funding that New York City lost when it failed to reach an agreement with …
Read MoreThis week, New York became the first state to opt out of the GED, the most widely used high-school equivalency test in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. …
Read MoreOP-ED: Growing evidence points to armed guards as the solution to violence in schools.
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