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.
A report by the city comptroller highlights deficiencies in how the city responds to space squeezes. What’s the long-term outlook for the scarcity of school seats?
Today, reused chains and recycled plastic lids sit in a warehouse in Queens. Next fall they’ll be used for school art projects in an improving—but still tight—funding environment.
By helping parents learn English, encouraging home literacy and fostering school engagement, one program is finding that increasing educational attainment is a family affair.
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