The summer break is as much a season of concern as it is one of celebration. Over the coming months educators, parents, policymakers and non-profit organizations will work to stem…
The question isn’t just whether the mayor’s plan will work. It’s whether it will work in time to satisfy critics who are suddenly skeptical of mayoral control.
A handful of questions on last year’s state ELA test seem to have disappeared from official tallies of students’ performance. Does that mean kids were forced to wrestle with bum…
A Capital Preparatory Charter School will open soon in Harlem ,promising to deliver the same kind of success its founder, Steve Perry, found in Hartford. But it’s unclear whether the…
School officials have talked for years about improving special education. The de Blasio administration is trying a new approach. Does it go deep enough?
After years of sharp criticism of the city’s approach to discipline, the de Blasio administration will soon release details of its revised take on school safety. But youth activists aren’t…
Sometimes the fight’s over classroom setting, sometimes over a child eating their meals through a straw. Often it involves lawyers, frantic parents and a strained school system.
Teachers were training. Parents waited. Opinions flew. As the borough and the city braced for Thursday’s launch of the universal pre-Kindergarten program, our reporting team found questions and complaints, confidence…
Corruption allegations in Hartford and Albuquerque and a relentless push for for-profit charters in Dallas highlight problems that New York’s charter-school surge has largely avoided.
While some statistics are disputed, the high rates of teacher attrition at charter schools raise questions about whether even the most successful ones can maintain quality amid the churn.
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