Education Reporting in NYC
Janiel Richards didn’t spend four years on an undergraduate college campus. Instead, she spent it at the multinational technology company IBM’s campus, starting when she was 17 years old, as …
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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, schools are learning that attendance is more than just checking a box. Teachers, parents, and school administrators are faced with the challenges of keeping students online and engaged.
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At the start of the school year, almost half of the city’s schools didn’t have operating libraries. Now, no students can access the physical space.
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A career-focused Brooklyn high school turns to less hours of virtual class time in order to improve attendance.
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For over three years, William Herrera has been able to indulge his fascination with architectural history as he walks the halls of New York City schools to determine whether or …
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The 2019-2020 school year has basically ground to a halt for many special education students, but for 20-year-old student Kristina “Krissy” Krotzer, the coronavirus all-school shut down could mean an …
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Many mandated services to the city’s 200,000 children with disabilities of these services cannot be provided online. Parents worry their special needs children are not receiving the free and appropriate education required by law.
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For the first time in nearly 100 years, New York City public schools were on track to alter their “abysmally low” number of buildings that meet the needs of hundreds of students with physical disabilities. Then came Covid-19.
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While teachers and students scrambled to adjust to virtual learning in the immediate aftermath of the coronavirus all-school shut down, long-term goals — like corralling runaway attendance rates — for …
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Some of New York’s high school teachers are finding that a flexible, project based approach to virtual instruction has led to increased attendance and engagement.
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